This is an analysis of The Brook by Eugene Field.

I looked in the brook and saw a face -
Heigh-ho, but a child was I!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbbbbbX aBabbbbbbXXBb
  • Stanza lengths: 10,13,
  • Metre: 110011101 1110111 1010111011 11110110111 101010111 101110101 11011101 10001 001001 101001001010 110011101 1110011 0101100111 10111110111 1010100101 110010101 10011101 10101 00101 101001001010 1110011 110110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

brook, and, it

Anaphora

and