This is an analysis of The Donkey In The Cart To The Horse In The Carriage by George MacDonald.
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I say! hey! cousin there! I mustn't call you brother!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bbbb X bbcc X ddee X ffgg a ccXX a ffXad aX X cchX X iiidhh X jjcX g jjaX a bbkk X cccc XXiicc
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,5,2,1,4,1,6,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
- Metre: 1 1111011101110 1110101111010 111111111010 11110111110 1 11111111111110 110111111010 110001111111 1111111110111 1 111111110111 11011101110101 1110101011111 11101010010111 1 10101011011001 001111111011101 11110011101101 111110111010101 1 101110100010101 111010101110101 0111100111101 01001010111011 1 1111110101101 1111110011101 1011 1 101010110 1 11111111010 1 11110101110111 00111110110111 11011111010100 1011101011111000 1 1111110011111 1111011111111 0 1 101001010101 1111111001101 1 11010111111110 10111011100010 10110101011101 110101100101 1 1111010111111010 0111101101110 1101111101011 11101011101110 1 1111111111010 1111111111010 111111111111 111111110101 1 1100011101101 111110110111 1010111111101 1001011110101 1 11111110101001 1111110110111 110101111101 1101011011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 27
- Lines: 70
Repeated words/phrases
i, you, pull, your, as, he, with, and, for
Anaphora
i, you, your, there's
Anadiplosis
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