This is an analysis of The Cut Finger by Ellis Parker Butler.
THE GOSSOON [Weeping]
It’s bleedin’! It’s bleedin’!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a X b XcXX XXc a X X XdXdXXd a X b XcXcXXc
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,4,3,1,1,1,7,1,1,1,7,
- Metre: 01010 010010 0110100 11111010 11110101011111 011101010110010 1010111011101100 11111110 10101010 11101110111111 01010 010010 01101000 11111010 11110101101111 0101101011101100 11011101111101 110111110 11011010 101010111111111 01010 010010 0110100 11111010 11111101110111 0110010110101010 101011101110101 111111010 1111101 11011101011101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
bleedin, ye, t
