This is an analysis of How Salty Win Out by Eugene Field.
I used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck--
It made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcC ddbbee ffcccc XeaacC gghhccXggcccC
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 11011111110111 01110111111101 11000111111101 11011101110101 01010100001111 10100111111 1010100001101 110011100001101 1100111001110001 10011101111111 11110111111111 010001101010101 111101001110111 01010111110111 11111111111111 11010111111101 11110101011101 111100110111 11010001110110 11110101011111 110010100010101 010101011100111 1101101111001 10100111111 11111111110101 01110100010110 110010101110001 11000101111001 1101110111101 11010110111 11110111110101 11110101111001 1111010111000101 11010001011111 11111101110101 10100111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
or, luck, in, he, win, an', to, i
Anaphora
salty
Epiphora
luck
