This is an analysis of Children Of The War by Katharine Lee Bates.
SHRUNKEN little bodies, pallid baby faces,
Eyes of staring terror, innocence defiled,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbbbXXbXXcXc
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 101010101010 101010100100 101110101010 001111110101 101010011010 11111010001 111010101110 10111011101 111110111010 1111010010100 1010010101111 0110010110101 1110101001100 1011010110001 1011111101010 111010011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
