This is an analysis of A Question by Ellis Parker Butler.
Whene’er I feed the barnyard folk
My gentle soul is vexed;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcXc ccac baXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10110111 110101 11010011 111101 01010101 110101 11111101 110111 11010101 110101 01110101 010101 111101110 010101 010000101 111001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Anaphora
my, he