This is an analysis of The Loser by Hilaire Belloc.
He lost his money first of all
And losing that is half the story-…
Browse poems by Hilaire Belloc
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdedececefafa
- Stanza lengths: 20,
- Metre: 11010101 110101010 11011101 010111010 11011101 0111010100 11011101 1101000100 11010111 010111010 11011100 110110010 11010110 010001010 01010101 110101010 010000101 01000101 01110101 11000101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
his, and, lost, he
Anaphora
and, he, his
