This is an analysis of The Old Maid's Story by Ada Cambridge.
Ay, many and many a year's gone by,
Since the dawn of that day in spring,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababacacadad dedeafafghgh gdgdieiejkjk
- Stanza lengths: 12,12,12,
- Metre: 1101100111 101011001 11100111011 11110101 11100100101 1101101 1101101111 1110101 1011110111 11000111 00110101111 1100111 1011111011 11110111 111100111 10100101 11101100111 1101111 1100100101 1100100 11111101011 11100111 0101100101 11100101 1110100101 1101101 0100111001 11101101 1111101101 1110111 111110101 10100111 11111001011 11110101 1101110111 1011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, they
Anaphora
we, they