This is an analysis of The Humming Top by Eugene Field.
The top it hummeth a sweet, sweet song
To my dear little boy at play -…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbbcaac dedeaaaXXa fefebbbggb
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,10,
- Metre: 010100111 01110111 10010111 101011001 111101 11001 11100101 01101 11001 0110101 11011101 1010111 11010111 010101 11001 0101 1011001 101101 101101 100101 0101110111 111101 010011111 11100101 01001 011101 1001101 1111 00101 10100101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
that, and, it
Anaphora
and
