This is an analysis of Fannie by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Fannie has the sweetest foot
Ever in a gaiter boot!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabbCDC efXfXgegaaCDC bXXabbfffahaCDc gififfichchCDc
- Stanza lengths: 10,13,15,14,
- Metre: 1010101 1000101 101010 101110 1010101 1010101 1010101 111110 1111111 1100110 1010101 01000101 01110101 01011001 01010101 11110101 1010111 010010011 11010101 1001101 111110 1111111 1100110 1011101 1010100 10101010 1011101 10100101 11110101 01011001 11110111 110010101 101010 11010110 101110 111110 1111111 1100110 1010101 10100101 1010111 0011001 11011101 01010001 0010101 101010 100111 1111010 1010101 111110 1111111 1111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
or, it, fannie
Anaphora
and, fannie
Epiphora
it
Anadiplosis
fannie
