This is an analysis of Fisherman Jim's Kids by Eugene Field.
Fisherman Jim lived on the hill
With his bonnie wife an' his little boys;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXbcc cbcbcdd ccccaee fbfbbdd gcgXeXX cecedXX ccccXee
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Metre: 10111101 0010110101 1110111110 1110111100 110110110 1110010101 001001 10111111 11110101 01011011 100111011 1011110111 110110101 001101 1101110001 1011100101 110011111 111001101001 001011101 1110111101 110011 110100111011 0010011001 010111101 10100100111 1111100101 11111100101 11111 110111111 100111001 1010110101 10111100 110101111 10101101001 10110 110111101 1001111101 110100101 1111110101 100101101 111101111 001100 11111001 11111101 010100111 1011100111 111010111 10101101011 1111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 49
Repeated words/phrases
his, he, and, they, to, by
Anaphora
and, an'
