This is an analysis of A Naughty Little Comet by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
There was a little comet who lived near the Milky Way!
She loved to wander out at night and jump about and play.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc bb aa dd ee ff gg bb hhXdd
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Metre: 11010101110101 11010111110111 01000101010011 110101011100111 11000101111101 1111101110100101 101010101010101 01010101110111 11010101110111 11001111111110 11010101110101 11111101011101 11010101111101 11010101110001 11011101111111 11010111110111 11111101110101 01110111011111 11111001010011 11111101010101 11111111001101 11010111110001 11110101010111 1101110111001001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, she, her
Anaphora
she, and
