This is an analysis of How’s My Boy? by Sydney Thompson Dobell.
“HO, Sailor of the sea!
How’s my boy—my boy?”…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aAXaaBaacccXc AdbdbdcdbcecbcXABbeebccbAbbAba
- Stanza lengths: 13,30,
- Metre: 110001 11111 011101 1010111 11111101 11110110 111101 11101 11111 111111110 101001 1111101010 11111 11111 1011111 1111110 11011 1101110 101111 101101010 111011 11111110 011111 01111111 11111001 1111110 10111 11111 11110110 1110010 010110101 10110101 0101010 11111 10011111 1001010 11111 11110110 11110 11111 11011110 111111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
boy, s, my, or, no, i, speak, low, be, her
Anaphora
every
