This is an analysis of Billy by Jean Blewett.
O! He was the boy of the house, you know,
A jolly and rollicking lad;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbb cdbd cdXd decX bfgf XcXc gfXf afhf XXbi hdbd fjdj dfXf jggg hXhg cdgX ikek
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110100111 01011001 11011110110 1101111 011001111 10111111 11111001001 1011111 011111111 11100101 1110110111 11111101 1010110101 01101101 0101111011 0111101 011100111 1101001 0101101001 10101001 111110101 0100101 111011110 1100101 010101101 00110111 1110010101 11001101 010110101 0100111 1110100001 1100111 011100101 11101111 011011111 1100101 0101001001 110001011 110101001 1100101 1111100101 11111001 110100111 1100101 010101001 1011001101 1110101101 11101101 0101100111 0100111 111011101 0110101 0111001001 11011011 1010101001 1110101 111100111 11111011 11101011101 11111101 011010101 10100101 1010010101 01001001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 65
Repeated words/phrases
he, to, twos, and, by, her, 'a, no
Anaphora
to, his, there's, the, and, no