This is an analysis of They Are So Glad Of A Young Companion, by Lesbia Harford.
They are so glad of a young companion,
They hail and bless me, these boys of mine,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXaXbcbdcdc
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 1111001010 111111101 1111111110 111100101 110100101 111101101 1111011010 110101101 0111001110 011111011 0110111010 110111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
of, and
Anaphora
they, we'll, of
