This is an analysis of Mediaeval Eventide Song by Eugene Field.
Come hither, lyttel childe, and lie upon my breast to-night,
For yonder fares an angell yclad in raimaunt white,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aAbX XXXX ccbX bbXX aAbX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010111011101 1101110100101 11011101100101 10110010110110 00111101101101 01011101010001 10111111110001 1100001110010 1011110110111 1101010010101 11110111110101 1110110110110 11111101111101 01111101110111 10110111110001 1101010010111 11110111011101 1101110100101 11011101100101 10110010110110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
and, that, lyttel, childe, ye, i
Anaphora
and
