This is an analysis of To De Witt Miller by Eugene Field.
Dear Miller: You and I despise
The cad who gathers books to sell 'em,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXX acdc efgf ecXc XaXe dXcX gfdfXagbg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11011101 011101010 01101101 110101010 11110101 010100010 11010101 010100010 11000101 010101010 10010101 110010110 10110101 010101110 11011001 111101110 10010101 1001010010 11110101 110001010 11010101 110101010 1010101 0101000100 11111111 111110110 11011101 110111010 10110101 010101011 11011111 010101010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
you
Anaphora
that
