This is an analysis of The Jumblies by Edward Lear.
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBbbBaXccXDEDE afggfddhhXDEDE aiffijjhhXDEDE bihhijjggXDEDE akffkkkbkDEDE XjiiXffeeXDEDE
- Stanza lengths: 14,14,14,14,13,14,
- Metre: 110100110 0011101 01011111 1010110101 0011101 11011111 11001111010 11011111 111101011101 0011101 111111 10110101 111111111 11101001 110100110 0011111 0100100111 1001011001 00101111 1100111101 111010111 10101101001 1101100101 0010111 111111 10110101 111111111 11101001 010011000 0100110 101011111 0010101101 111001001 11101001001 110011111 10101101001 11101110111 1101111 111111 10110101 111111111 11101001 11111101 110111 1101100101 001001001001 00100101 110011011 111001101001 111100111 110100111 00100101 111111 10110101 111111111 11101001 110010110 00111001 1111110101 10101101101 10101001 1110111111 10101001011 110100111 1110101 111111 10110101 111111111 11101001 101001111 010011 1100111111 11000110101 101001010 1111111001 010101001 11001101101 110101001 001001010 111111 10110101 111111111 11101001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 83
Repeated words/phrases
they, in, sieve, and, it, we, of
Anaphora
in, and, the