This is an analysis of Little Nellie's Pa by Alma Frances McCollum.
Oh! me and Nellie Barker live way down on William Street,—
I'll bet you couldn't find another youngster half so sweet;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXd bbeeeefd Xegghhfd cchhiidd XgccjjfX jjgghhdd aaXjeefd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11110101111101 11110101010111 11111100010001 11110101010101 11010101110111 11011111000101 01110101110111 100100101010101 11010111110101 00110111100111 11110101110101 11111111010101 11111101110111 10010101111111 11010110110111 11110101010101 11111101110100 11111101111101 11011111011101 110111011010101 11111101111101 11110111111101 11111101011101 11111101110101 11010111110101 110101111111011 11110111010111 11011111011101 111111001111001 111101001110111 11011111010001 11111101010101 111111011111011 11011011111101 11110101111011 11110011110111 01110011111101 11001111111111 01110111110111 11011111110101 11110111110101 11010101110101 11110111111101 11010110111111 11110101110101 11010111110101 11111111010011 111111110110101 11010011010111 01111101111101 111101010100111 11111111110011 11100100101010 11110111111111 01010101010111 10110101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
of, like, and, we, he, by, to, pa, tum
Anaphora
she's, i, and
