Analysis of The Little Children
Francis Ledwidge 1887 (Slane) – 1917 (Boezinge)
Hunger points a bony finger
To the workhouse on the hill,
But the little children linger
While there's flowers to gather still
For my sunny window sill.
In my hands I take their faces,
Smiling to my smiles they run.
Would that I could take their places
Where the murky bye-ways shun
The benedictions of the sun
How they laugh and sing returning
Lightly on their secret way.
While I listen in my yearning
Their laughter fills the windy day
With gladness, youth and May.
Scheme | ABABB CDCDD EFEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101010 101101 10101010 11101101 1110101 01111110 1011111 11111110 1010111 01101 11101010 1011101 11100110 11010101 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 462 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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