Analysis of Little Princess Mee



Little Princess Mee
Lovely was she
As in elven-song is told:
She had pearls in hair
All threaded fair;
Of gossamer shot with gold
Was her kerchief made,
And a silver braid
Of stars above her throat.
Of moth-web light
All moonlit-white
She wore a woven coat,
And round her kirtle
Was bound a girdle
Sewn with diamond dew.

She walked by day
Under mantle grey
And hood of clouded blue;
But she went by night
All glittering bright
Under the starlit sky,
And her slippers frail
Of fishes' mail
Flashed as she went by
To her dancing-pool,
And on mirror cool
Of windless water played.
As a mist of light
In whirling flight
A glint like glass she made
Wherever her feet
Of silver fleet
Flicked the dancing-floor.

She looked on high
To the roofless sky
And she looked to the shadowy shore;
Then round she went,
And her eyes she bent
And saw beneath her go
A Princess Shee
As fair as Mee:
They were dancing toe to toe!

Shee was as light
As Mee, and as bright;
But Shee was, strange to tell,
Hanging down
With starry crown
Into a bottomless well!
Her gleaming eyes
In great surprise
Looked upon to the eyes of Mee:
A marvellous thing,
Head-down to swing
Above a starry sea!

Only their feet
Could ever meet;
For where the ways might lie
To find a land
Where they do not stand
But hang down in the sky
No one could tell
Nor learn in spell
In all the elven-lore.

So still on her own
An elf alone
Dancing as before
With pearls in hair
And kirtle fair
And slippers frail
Of fishes' mail went Mee:
Of fishes' mail
And slippers frail
And kirtle fair
With pearls in hair went Shee!


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Poetic Form
Metre 10101 1011 101111 11101 1101 1100111 10101 00101 110101 1111 111 110101 0101 11010 11101 1111 10101 011101 11111 11001 100101 00101 1101 11111 10101 01101 11101 10111 0101 011111 01001 1101 10101 1111 1011 011101001 1111 00111 010101 0101 1111 1010111 1111 11011 111111 101 1101 0101001 0101 0101 10110111 011 1111 010101 1011 1101 110111 1101 11111 111001 1111 1101 01011 11101 1101 10101 1101 011 0101 110111 1101 0101 011 110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,489
Words 298
Sentences 9
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 15, 18, 9, 12, 9, 11
Lines Amount 74
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 205
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Submitted by MoonInworld on May 15, 2021

Modified on April 06, 2023

1:29 min read
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