This is an analysis of Ashes On The Slide by Eugene Field.
When Jim and Bill and I were boys a many years ago,
How gayly did we use to hail the coming of the snow!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeedd ffaadX ggbbdX bbhhddXaaaadd
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 11111101010001 11001101010001 11110110110111 10011100110001 1110101001110101 11011101110111 11001110111101 111111111010001 10011101110111 111111101111101 11011100110101 11010101011101 01011101110101 11010111010101 11111101111001 01010100110101 011111010100111 110111110111010 11110001100101 01101111010101 01011100010101 01010001011101 11110100101101 110111010101010 11010101100101 01010100110011 11111101111001 101000101010111 11110101011101 110011101010111 110101001010101 11011101110011 10110111111111 010101010101001 11011101100111 11010101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, to, his, that
Anaphora
and, the, that
