This is an analysis of Child by Carl Sandburg.
The young child, Christ, is straight and wise
And asks questions of the old men, questions…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXabbXXXa
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 01110111 1110001110 11010101110 11101111110 1111010111 10010100101 1001100100 101111110 1011101011011 10111111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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