This is an analysis of A Christmas Childhood by Patrick Kavanagh.
One side of the potato-pits was white with frost -
How wonderful that was, how wonderful!…
Browse poems by Patrick Kavanagh
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dede fgfg Xaah iXXi jXXb Xakb keXe jbfk ihXa aiXX Xkif
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110001111101 1100111100 11111100101 0101111100 0101010111 101010101101 0001010111 1110011101 010101101 1101010111 1101010001 10111001 0101000101 0111011001 110101010001 0010101011 11010100 11111 10100101 1110010 0101101001 010110 11111100010 11111110 110011110 1010010 0100101101 10101011010 01011001 1101 101011011 110100100101 111011010 1011 010010001010 0101000101 100110 100101 1111110101 00100111 111101 11101 0100110011 11001011101 11111011 0110011 110101110011 111110001 11010100 110101 1110110111 1010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
the, my
