Analysis of Suffer Little Children
Wayne Blair 1951 (London)
Children bound to toil and tears.Thought the shame of former years.
Woe, the heart that never hears.Some are fettered still.
Children bent to rake and hoe;Torn from play by plague's death-throe.
Scratching dust to make it grow.
Some are fettered still.
Children weighed with coat and gun;
Warlord's whims to serve and run.
Mocking death ere day is done.
Some are fettered still.
Children pulled from Mother's breast;
Mother, back to work impressed.
Hurried plans leave them no rest.
Some are fettered still.
Children made the sport of night;
Pawns of lust, but out of sight.
Forced by fiends who once seemed right.
Some are fettered still.
Children never taught to pray;
Taught to live Redemption's way.
Starving souls with Hell to pay.
Some are fettered still.
Children bound to toil and tears.
Thought the shame of former years.
Woe, the heart that never hears.
Some are fettered still.
Scheme | abccB dddBeeeB fffBcggB xaxB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101011101 10111011101 1011101111111 1011111 11101 1011101 111101 1011111 11101 1011101 1011101 1011111 11101 1010111 1111111 1111111 11101 1010111 11111 1011111 11101 1011101 1011101 1011101 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 896 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 8, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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