Analysis of Breakfast Time
James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950
The sun is always in the sky
Whenever I get out of bed,
And I often wonder why
It's never late.—My sister said
She did not know who did the trick,
And that she did not care a bit,
And I should eat my porridge quick.
... I think it's mother wakens it.
| Scheme | ABABCDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
| Metre | 0111001 01011111 0110101 11011101 11111101 01111101 01111101 1111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 261 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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