This is an analysis of The Lyttel Boy by Eugene Field.
Sometime there ben a lyttel boy
That wolde not renne and play,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXAXbcb dXbXeaXA bfdfXaaA eXaccXaX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11110101 111111 11011101 110001 111100010 010101 10011101 111001 11010101 111111 11011101 110001 01010001 010101 11111101 110001 11010111 010111 11110101 110101 11111111 110111 110010101 110001 11010101 110101 11111111 011101 11111001 110101 101010101 100111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Anaphora
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