This is an analysis of To Lydia by Eugene Field.
When, Lydia, you (once fond and true,
But now grown cold and supercilious)…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb deae XdXd XfXf Xgcg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110011111 1111110100 11010111 1101011100 10011111 1100111110 111000111 110111010 01111101 111101010 11011101 101101110 01010100 101111110 11111101 111111010 11111101 111100100 11110101 111111000
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
and, my
Anaphora
my
