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!…
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