This is an analysis of Growing Up by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.

Little Tommy Tadpole began to weep and wail,
For little Tommy Tadpole had lost his little tail;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 101011010111 1101011110101 101010111110101 11101011110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

little, tadpole, tommy