This is an analysis of Lullaby; By The Sea by Eugene Field.
Fair is the castle up on the hill--
Hushaby, sweet my own!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBaccB dBdccB ebeccB cBcaab XXXeeB
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 100101101 100111 010110111 10101001101 001010101 100111 11010101 100111 11001001011 11111111 1010111101 100111 11110111 11111 1001001001 11011111 1010011111 100111 110110111 100111 011010101 110101101 111011100 100111 11010101 10001110 010100101 10101100101 100101101 100111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
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