This is an analysis of Little Boy Blue by Eugene Field.

The little toy dog is covered with dust,
But sturdy and stanch he stands;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eXebfcfc egegcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 0101101001 1101111 10101100101 10101001 1110101111 10101101 11101111011 101101 101111110011 1011110100 110100101 1100101 1111101101 01011011 1001100011 10101111 1100101111 100111 0100100101 0100101 11101101101 00101101 1101011011 11101101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

and, little

Anaphora

and