This is an analysis of Bide A Wee! by William Arthur Dunkerley.

Though the times be dark and dreary,
Though the way be long,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaXb
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 10101110 10101 11101110 10111010 00101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

though