This is an analysis of The Impecunious Cricket And The Frugal Ant by Guy Wetmore Carryl.
There was an ant, a spinster ant,
Whose virtues were so many…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eaeaaXaf cXcXgcgc cXcXfXfX hhaa
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,4,
- Metre: 11110101 1100110 11010100 0111010 11011101 1101010 11010001 1111010 11010101 1101010 110011101 0101010 11011101 0110000 11010001 01001110 11010111 0101010 11010001 0101110 110111101 1100010 11110101 100010 11110111 1101110 100010101 1111010 11011101 1111011 01110111 1101111 01000101 01010101 01010111 11110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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