This is an analysis of Mysterious Doings by Eugene Field.

As once I rambled in the woods
I chanced to spy amid the brake…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXcXc adddeefe dfefbgbg
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 11110001 110010101 01010101 01110101 11011111 11010101 11111100 11011101 11110111 010111001 10011101 11010111 11010101 110001110 1100100111 11011101 11011111 010110111 111011101 11010001 11010101 11010111 01010111 11010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

he

Anaphora

a