Analysis of Breakfast Time (The Adventures Of Seumas Beg)

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 246
Words 53
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) 54
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James Stephens

James Stephens was an Irish Republican and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin on 17 March 1858, later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, also referred to as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood by contemporaries. more…

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