This is an analysis of Horace To Pyrrha by Eugene Field.

What perfumed, posie-dizened sirrah,
With smiles for diet,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbc dedefgfg
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 101110010 01110 111111010 1010 111111110 11110 101101010 01010 101111010 11110 111111010 10110 1011010010 11101 111110010 11101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16