This is an analysis of The Story Of Grumble Tone by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
There was a boy named Grumble Tone, who ran away to sea.
'I'm sick of things on land,' he said, 'as sick as I can be,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbb cccaaa dddccc
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
- Metre: 11011101110101 11011111111110 01010101010111 101010101010101 110110101010101 111011111010101 11000101111101 11011111110101 11110111110101 11011101110111 11110101110101 011101001111101 11010101011111 11110111110111 11010111010111 010111111000101 11110111111001 111010100110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
he, and, or
Anaphora
he
