This is an analysis of Reasonable Interest by Ellis Parker Butler.

I want to know how Bernard Shaw
Likes beefsteak—fairly done, or raw?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXbX XXcc aabb ddee ffaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11011011 11110111 11011101 11001101 11110100 01011111 110010101 100101100 11011101 110101010 10110101 11110111 11010101 10111011 10110111 11111011 11011101 11100101 01011111 11011101 11011110 01010101 11011111 11010011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

or, he, to, i, want

Anaphora

i