This is an analysis of The Wanderer by Eugene Field.

Upon a mountain height, far from the sea,
I found a shell,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abccb daeea Xceec daaaa X
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,1,
  • Metre: 0101011001 1101 10110010101 1001010101 1001010101 1101011101 1111 1011111101 11011110101 1001010101 1101100101 1101 10010100001 1001010111 1001000101 1101010101 1001 1111011101 11110100111 1111111101 1
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

of, i

Anaphora

ever, sang, so

Anadiplosis

sang