This is an analysis of Colonel’s Toast, The * by Ina D. Coolbrith.
‘May the Lord love us and not call for us Too Soon’
Unto the little child whose happy heart…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a baba caca dada eaea baba dada X
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Metre: 101111111111 1001011101 0101110111 1111011101 1111011111 0101001101 1111010101 1101100101 1101010111 10001110011 1101010101 1101110111 0101110111 1111010011 1011110101 1111111111 0111111001 1101011101 1101011111 1111010100 0111001111 0101011001 1100111111 1111111111 1101111111 101001001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
and, too, soon, to
