This is an analysis of Ye Old Mule by David McKee Wright.
Ye old mule that think yourself so fair,
Leave off with craft your beauty to repair,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbXBXabBaabbaB
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 111111011 1101110001 1001011010 111011100110 1101111110 111 011011011 1011110111 10011001010 111 1111010101 1101011001 11110100110 011111110010 0100110111 111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Anaphora
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