This is an analysis of The Pessimist by Benjamin Franklin King.
1 Nothing to do but work,
2 Nothing to eat but food,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb deXe dbcb cXfa gfffXfcgc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1100111 1100111 1100111 10110101 1100111 11101101 1110111 1110111 1100111 11101101 1100111 11001011 1100111 1110110 1110111 1110111 1100111 1100111 110011111 1111111 11001101 1101111 110111101 11100111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
to, but, nothing