This is an analysis of A Little Boy In The Morning by Francis Ledwidge.
He will not come, and still I wait.
He whistles at another gate…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbCc ddeeffbCc
- Stanza lengths: 6,9,
- Metre: 10111111 11010101 11010111 10111011 11111011 1000001001 01111101 01010101 101111010 110101010 10011111 01010001 01010111 11111011 100000101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
i, he
Anaphora
he
