This is an analysis of Jimmy Wood by Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake.
There came a lonely Briton to the town,
A solitary Briton with a mission,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc dede aXae cdcd fafa ghgX ijij hkhX lclc mkmk nono dkdkXmjmj
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1101010001 01010100010 1101011101 01010001010 1000100001 01000111010 1011000101 01011101010 11010100001 11010100010 1100011101 11011110010 111010001 101100111100 1111010111 100011100010 1101011001 11010100110 1101010001 11010101110 0101110101 11000101010 1101010011 10011100010 1101110101 0111100010 1111010111 11110100010 1101110111 11001101011 1111011101 01001111011 1111010101 01010101010 1111010001 1001000100 1111011111 110001100010 1101011001 11010110010 0101011111 11010000010 01010101001 01011101010 1101110101 11110101010 1110110001 11110101010 1001010101 11010101010 1010011101 11010101010 0100010101 11010111111 0101110101 11011101011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
to, his, he, and, i, never, of
Anaphora
he, and
