This is an analysis of Foolish Children by George MacDonald.
Waking in the night to pray,
Sleeping when the answer comes,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababab aXaXaX aXaXaX acacac
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1000101 1010101 10111011 1001111 1001101 1110101 10001101 11110010 1110101 1101111 1111101 1010110 1110111 1110111 1110101 1011111 1111101 1110111 10010101 1010111 1110101 1111111 1010101 1101111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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