This is an analysis of Beard And Baby by Eugene Field.
I say, as one who never feared
The wrath of a subscriber's bullet,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cdcd XeXe dede cdcd dfdf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11111101 010001010 11011101 111101010 11111101 110110010 11010111 111101010 01011101 110111110 11011111 110101010 11010111 010000110 11110101 110101010 11010101 010111010 11010001 110101110 11011101 110101010 11010111 111111010 110010101 110001010 11111111 010001010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Anaphora
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