This is an analysis of Uhland's by Eugene Field.

There were three cavaliers that went over the Rhine,
And gayly they called to the hostess for wine.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX XXbb ccdX eedX eecX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 101101111001 11011001011 101011011101 111110010110 1011110110011 10011010010110 11111001101 001101101111 101100101001 101001101001 1111011111011 111111111110 01100101011 11001001001 10101111001 1010110110110 1011001011011 11001011111 101110111101 11111100101100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

and, his, thee

Anaphora

and