This is an analysis of Childhood by Anne Bradstreet.
Ah me! conceiv'd in sin, and born in sorrow,
A nothing, here to day, but gone to morrow,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefghhddXihhjjkkhhiiXlgfhhccjjkkmmmmlliiminnmmoopphhkkllggppkkqqkkeebbkkgg
- Stanza lengths: 82,
- Metre: 11010111010 01010111010 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 0111010101 0101011111 0111110111 0100011001 1101011101 1101110100 1011000111 0101100101 1110011001 0101111111 1101101101 1100111100 0111010101 1100010101 0111010111 0101011101 1101010101 1111110101 1011001111 0101010101 1100110001 1001011100 1001010100 1001111011 0101011111 11001110101 0101011100 1101000111 1111110111 1101001111 1101010011 1111111111 1101111101 11011100111 1111110011 110111001 1111011111 1101111111 1101011111 1101110101 11110000101 1111111001 1100110101 1111110111 1111111101 1111111111 1111010111 0111001101 11101011 110101101 1111111101 1111010111 0111011010 011010101 0111011111 0010010101 0101010111 0101111011 110101101 1101010111 1111111111 1101111101 1111010111 1111010001 1101111111 1101110001 1101010101 1100111011 110111110 1101111101 1101110011 01010010101 1001110111 1101110101 1101111111 1110110111 1111010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 82
Repeated words/phrases
with, or, i, my, no, nor, and
Anaphora
to, when, in, my, i, from, a, what
