This is an analysis of Upon The Disobedient Child by John Bunyan.

Children become, while little, our delights!
When they grow bigger, they begin to fright's.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccXXaaddeeccccffddXgddhhggddiiXXjjkk
  • Stanza lengths: 42,
  • Metre: 1001110101 1111010101 1101010010 1001011101 1101111101 1001010101 11010001010 10110100010 1101010110 1101010110 1111010001 1101110001 1101110111 1101100010 01011101010 01010100010 11110101010 11001101010 11010101110 11010110010 1101010101 1111000101 1111010101 1101000101 1101111110 111011101 1101111101 0101010111 1101011111 1111110111 1101110101 1101010001 101100101 1101000110 1111001111 0111011111 1101111111 1111111101 1101110101 1101011101 1001011101 1101101111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 42

Repeated words/phrases

to, they, they'll, and, their

Anaphora

they'll