This is an analysis of A Child’s Song by Dora Sigerson Shorter.
The starlings they have come to town,
With polka dots on their robes of brown;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aAbcDdDEebbDdDbbee DdDffbcDdDaAEeDdD
- Stanza lengths: 18,17,
- Metre: 01011101 010111101 110110111 11011100 1111111 11010111 1111111 11010111 010111101 01011111 00011101 1111111 01010101 1111111 01010101 011110111 1010111 11110101 1111111 11010001 1111111 01000111 11111101 11010101 11011100 1111111 11010001 1111111 01011101 010111101 11010111 01011111 1111111 0111001 1111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 35
Repeated words/phrases
creak, pipe, squeak
Anaphora
of
