This is an analysis of The Wife Of Llew by Francis Ledwidge.

And Gwydion said to Math, when it was Spring:
"Come now and let us make a wife for Llew."…

Read full poem

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXabbaacdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 11010110101 101111101110 1111111101 1001110101 11010010111 0101011101 1101010101 1101110101 0011010101 11011101010 1111000101 11010101110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

and, they, her

Anaphora

and