This is an analysis of The Dying Year by Eugene Field.
The year has been a tedious one--
A weary round of toil and sorrow,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX dXdX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 011001001 010101110 11011101 111111010 110011111 010101010 01110101 1101011100 100010101 010100101 01011111 111111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
the
