This is an analysis of When I Was Small by Jens Baggesen.
There was a time when I was very small
A mere two feet was all I measured then;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ecec afaf ghgh daXa hidi jbjbXjbjb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1101111101 0111111101 1111001101 1001111101 0101010111 11110101111 0111011111 1101011101 0111010101 1101111101 1011011111 1111010111 1101110101 1101010101 1111011010 0100111111 1101100101 0001111001 1111011101 0101010101 1011010011 1110110101 1111011111 1101010101 0101010101 0111010111 1101111111 0011101101 11111101110 1111011101 11110110110 1111110111 11111111010 1101110011 0100000111110 1111111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
i, time, and, how, in, for, my, all, gone
Anaphora
and