This is an analysis of The Bottle And The Bird by Eugene Field.
Once on a time a friend of mine prevailed on me to go
To see the dazzling splendors of a sinful ballet show,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcX ddeefX ggbXcc ffccee aacccc ggeegg ffhheeXffeecc
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 11010101011101 010100100010011 11011100010001 110100011110001 1101001111101 111111010111 11111011110101 010101100010101 100100100110101 01010101110101 1010101010100101 11010101111110 101010111010111 10011010110101 11010111110111 110001011011100 01110101010101 1101010011111 11011111110111 11010100010001 110100101011101 011101010110001 11010101011101 10011100011101 01010111110101 11111101111101 01000100110111 10010100110111 11001100011101 10111010111 01110101011101 01001011010111 11010001110101 101010111010101 101010111110101 11010100010101 11110101100011 1100010111001001 11111101111111 100010101110101 11111101100111 11110111111101 11011101110111 110011011100101 11100101010101 11010011100101101 11010100010101 00111010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
i, how, that, what, you, and
