This is an analysis of The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb.
I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions,
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaA baA cdA cXa eXa dba XeA
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 11111111010 011011011011 11110101010 11010110010 101101011010 11110101010 11011100110 11011111110 11110101010 11010101111 11101111010 110110101010 11111010111 11010111010 10010101010 10110111010 11111011010 111100101010 11111111111 111100111010 11110101010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
i, have, friend, some