This is an analysis of Old Spanish Song by Eugene Field.

I'm thinking of the wooing
That won my maiden heart…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcacadede afafXbXbdede XdXdgfgfdede
  • Stanza lengths: 12,12,12,
  • Metre: 0100010 111101 1111010 010101 0001010 010101 0111010 0011101 10101010 1010101 1111110 010101 1110010 011101 0100110 110111 0101110 00100101 10101010 1010101 1111010 011001 1101110 110101 1111110 010101 1011010 0101001 10101111 1011111 1100011 1111101 1111110 1011101 1101110 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 36

Repeated words/phrases

and, me

Anaphora

and