This is an analysis of Street Music by Lesbia Harford.

There's a band in the street, there's a band in the street.
It will play you a tune for a penny—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabBXaXabB
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 101001101001 0011011010 001101101101 111110110 1010110101 010100111 1010101111 10111010 1010110101 101101110 1010110101 010100111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

you, tune, and, music's

Anaphora

it