This is an analysis of A Song Of The Greenaway Child by Henry Austin Dobson.

As I went a-walking on _Lavender Hill_,
O, I met a Darling in frock and frill;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabX bbaa cccX bXXcc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,5,
  • Metre: 11101011001 1110100111 11111100101 11100101111 11100110101 111111111011 11100100111 10101100101 1110111111 0101101101 1101100111 1111110111010 10101101111 11111111111 111001101001 111111011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

we, and, i, you

Anaphora

and