This is an analysis of How It Happened by John Hay.
I pray you, pardon me, Elsie,
And smile that frown away…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbXded ffffXgcg deeefgeg dbXbffff adfdXhch
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11110110 111101 110101101 1010101 1101110 0111111 111111111 11100001 11100010 110111 110001001 101110011 1110101101 1100101 1101011101 1110101 10111010 1101111 0111001001 0010101 10101100101 1110101 1101110111 1100101 111010011 101101001 110111001 0101001 1111110 1100101 111101111 1010101 11111110 0100101 1011111101 1111001 1111110 10101101 0101101111 1101101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, i
Anaphora
and, i
