This is an analysis of The Four Children by Dora Sigerson Shorter.
A Ballad of Good Intentions
Four children played by an old oak tree,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aXbbccaXddXXXacX ccaX bbeeccaaffggccbb ggaX
- Stanza lengths: 1,16,4,16,4,
- Metre: 01000010 110111111 11111101 110010101 101111001 111110101 110110101 11010101 101011001 111111101 001010101 1111101010 0111101010 11111101 110110101 111100111 1110111101 100110011 111110101 111111111 1111111010 011110111 011110110 110100101 1111100111 110100101 111011111 110110101 1110100111 111111101 111100101 011111111 1110100101 111111111 111100111 110010111 110110111 0011110101 001111001 111110101 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 41
Repeated words/phrases
and, his, till
Anaphora
i, the
