This is an analysis of The Twenty Hoss-Power Shay by Ellis Parker Butler.
You have heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay
That was built in such a logical way…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabbccXa ddeeffggaabb aaaffbbaa bbhhaX iiaajjeeff bbffaaccXibbcckkcchh aa Xd
- Stanza lengths: 9,12,9,6,10,20,2,2,
- Metre: 11100100111 1110101001 010100001 1100100111 1111110101 11100101 0010011101 101111010110 0010010101 11111111 101000101 10101111 11100101 111100101 1111011001 010101001 101110111 101111101 0011100111 11001111001 010100101 10110111 11110111 101001001 1010111 10111101 11111101 11111101 110001001111 11111111 100100101 011100100 111110101 1101101101 010110111 0110100100 11111111 111010001 1010110111 1000100101 110100101 11011101 011010101 101111011 011010101 110010111 100010011001 1111101001 0011100101 01110101 111001011 11010111 11001001001 010100101 110110111 10101101001 110101111 10011101 11100110 10010111 101111010 111001010 1010010101 111111101 11010101 111101111 101101101 100101111 0101110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 70
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, i, it
Anaphora
and, twenty, it
