This is an analysis of Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney.
I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXa Xbc Xdb Xdb ebe Xac XdfXf
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,5,
- Metre: 11110001011 1011010001 1101110111 0011111010 111110100001 111101001011 0101111101 1110111010 1111010111 11110101110 10011011010 01111110111 0011110101 1101010001 00111101010 110111000110 1101011111 1011011101 10010110110 11001111001 1101010111 01110111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
and, my, in