This is an analysis of The Children Of The Sun by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.

The Children of the Sun are out,
About the hills and beaches…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaabcc cdccdee adaadbb fXffXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,
  • Metre: 01000111 0101110 010101011 01010101 1110110 11010111 11010111 01000111 0111110 11010111 11111101 10101010 01111111 010101001 01000111 1111010 11011111 110100101 0101110 11111111 11001101 01000111 1101010 11110111 11110101 1111100 01010101 111110000
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 31

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the, and