This is an analysis of Letter From The Town Mouse To The Country Mouse by Horace Smith.
I.
Oh for a field, my friend; oh for a field!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a BccbdadeffggffddccccahhXbaB X iiiijjddkkiiibaaB X bfdfiiigigcfcflalabmbmbebenknkddkakcccfaabfaB X XfkffXfhogoXimimcgcgplplagicfqlqpgpgjfifflflfkfkjgjgcirriffXffXssggiXfi
- Stanza lengths: 1,27,1,17,1,45,1,71,
- Metre: 1 1101111101 1111 11111011001 010101 11110100 10011001 01010100 01001100 1111011111 010101 1111010 11010010 1111 010101 1111000101 1100111 0101 1101 0101 01011101 01111111 1101011111 110101 011111 0101001 111101 1101111101 1 1101110101 0101001 110101 0111010101 10011 1111 00101010101 101101 10010110 10010110 1101011011 010100111 111111101 1111111101 1111 1111 1101111101 1 11011101 001111 11010101 110101 11011111 11111111 110110011 1100110 11010001 1011110 01110111 0100010 11011101 0111000 11011101 010100101 11001101 1101011 01010101 0101010 01001111 1101010 11110101 11110100 11111111 11000100 10110101 1111010 01010101 0101010 11010001 11010111 0111010 01011111 1101110 11010111 11110101 01011101 01010100 110011101 11111111 110011 11011100 01111101 1101111101 1 01111110 0101110 11110101 0101110 01010101 0111100 01110101 1101010 11011111 0101010 01010001 0101010 01010101 1101110 01110101 0101110 01010111 1101110 01110111 1101110 01000111 1101110 01000101 1101010 11110100 01101010 01011111 1101111 110111001 1101010 010101001 0101110 110011101 1101110 0110111 11001010 111111001 1101010 11011101 1111010 110110111 10101110 01010101 1100010 11010101 0111010 01110111 1101010 11011101 01011110 010011111 0101010 01111101 1001010 11001111 11011111 1111010 11111110011 11101011101 1010110100 101101001011 101101101101 1010010010 10101101101 101011111011 0100111110 101001001110 111111010 10110101100 10111011001 10111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 164
Repeated words/phrases
field, of, and, oh, for, in, i, her, one
Anaphora
of, the, i, and
