This is an analysis of A Piteous Plaint by Eugene Field.
I cannot eat my porridge,
I weary of my play;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Abcbcded XbfXedbd gdfdcdhd XeXegdXd fcdcXdXd AbhbcddX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1101110 110011 11011111 110111 11011111 010101 11110111 110101 1111010 110111 11110101 11111010 1101110 0010101 11101011 110101 1101110 1110111 11101110 101101 11001101 0010101 1100010 0010101 1101010 0111011 01110110 1111111 11111010 1110011 10110000 0011101 1110110 1110101 11001101 100101 10111111 111101 11010100 010101 1101110 111111 01011111 110101 11010101 110101 101011001 0101010
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
i, her, and, you, my
Anaphora
i, no, and, will
