This is an analysis of Childhood Alone Is Glad by Charles Heavysege.
Childhood alone is glad. With it time flees
In constant mimes and bright festivities.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbbbccaadd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101010011 01010110100 0101010101 11110111001 1101011101 1111110101 11110111010 11110110010 0100110011 1101010011 101010101110 010111110010 10111001101 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14