This is an analysis of the poem And The Bairns Will Come that begins with:

So you’ve seen at last what we have seen so long through scalding tears:
You have found what we—the People—we have known for twenty years:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb ddbb eebB ffbB XXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111111111101 111110101111100 1100101010101101 1110101010101 111010111110111 111011101010111 111011101010101 1110101110101 101011101011101 0110011101110111 011110101111111 1110101010101 111000101011101 101111111010011 111011100110100 1010101010101 111111100010101 101011100010001 001000101010101 1010101010101 1110101010101000 111010001010101 101100101010101 1011101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, have, and, their, to, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word don is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word come at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of And The Bairns Will Come;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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