This is an analysis of Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; Ii: by Ellis Parker Butler.

Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; II: On Malicious Cruelty To Harmless Creatures
The cruelty of P. L. Brown—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbbbb cbcXb dadda ebeeb fffff faff a X XX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,5,5,5,5,4,1,1,2,
  • Metre: 1010010101101010001010 01000111 11111011 110100101 10110101 11011111 011100101 11111011 11110101 11011001 11111101 100000101 11111101 11111111 100001001 10111111 11011101 11101111 10011111 01010011 01110101 11011101 11011101 11010111 01010111 01010001 11011100 11010101 11011111 01010001 11011111 10 100001011 11111100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 35

Repeated words/phrases

and, his