This is an analysis of The Text by Charles Lamb.
One Sunday eve a grave old man,
Who had not been at church, did say,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdcd efeX gege hfhf iXij XfXX hbhX Xjhj kXkX lXlj aeae haha ehehXhjhj
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11110111 11101101 10011011 11110101 11011111 11011011 11110111 01010111 01111101 10010011 11111111 10110111 01111101 111101010 11011111 111111110 11010111 11010111 11010111 01001111 11010101 110101010 11010101 110100110 11110111 110011011 11111101 110101110 101111111 11110101 00111101 01110101 11110110 11011110 10010001 1111001010 111111110 01100111 110001110 10110100 01010101 11010101 10011001 110111010 110101010 011111010 111100110 011101010 0100101110 11010110 010011010 10010111 111101111 01010101 010101111 11110101 010101010 011111010 010111010 0100001110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
she, had
Anaphora
she, i
