This is an analysis of Says Mister Doojabs by Ellis Parker Butler.
Well, eight months ago one clear cold day,
I took a ramble up Broadway,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcc cXaadd eeffgg ffhXfX aaaaii jjkkaa llhhjX aakkfX
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 111011111 11010111 10110111 110110111 111011101 111100101 1100101101 1111110101 110111101 110111101 11111011001 110101111 1010010111 111111101 111101111 101010111 010011111 01011101 111111111 110001111 110111101110 111111 11111111 1101101101 111111101 101011111 111111101 0110111111 11110110111 111010111 111011011 111010011 1111111001 01111101 11110011111 001110101 1001101101 1111110101 0111111101 111100101 11111111 0010101110 111110101 01011101 111010111 001110011 1010100111 1111111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, he, my
Anaphora
i, and
