This is an analysis of When I Was A Boy by Eugene Field.
Up in the attic where I slept
When I was a boy, a little boy,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBaaccddB cBccXbeeB fBffbbggB
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,
- Metre: 10010111 111010101 010100111 10010111 10011101 10010101 11111111 001010111 111010101 11010111 111010101 101110101 10110111 01010100 1011100100 110100101 111010101 111010101 110111101 111010101 1010100111 10010101 0101100001 00110101101 111111101 011110111 111010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
boy, i, to
