This is an analysis of To Leuconoee by Eugene Field.
Seek not, Leuconoee, to know how long you're going to live yet,
What boons the gods will yet withhold, or what they're going to give yet;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 11100111110011 1101010111110011 110001010111110 1011110011110010 01011101000101 010101010111111 111111111111011 010101111111011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
yet, to
Epiphora
yet, ye
