Analysis of Breaking The Day In Two
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
When from dawn till noon seems one long day,
And from noon till night another,
Oh, then should a little boy come from play,
And creep into the arms of his mother.
Snugly creep and fall asleep,
O come, my baby, do;
Creep into my lap, and with a nap,
We'll break the day in two.
When the shadows slant for afternoon,
When the midday meal is over;
When the winds have sung themselves into a swoon,
And the bees drone in the clover.
Then hie to me, hie, for a lullaby-
Come, my baby, do;
Creep into my lap, and with a nap
We'll break the day in two.
We'll break it in two with a crooning song,
With a soft and soothing number;
For the day has no right to be so long
And keep my baby from slumber.
Then rock-a-by, rock, may white dreams flock
Like angels over you;
Baby's gone, and the deed is done
We've broken the day in two.
Scheme | ababxcDC ebebxcDC fbfbxcxc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111111 01111010 1110101111 0101011110 1010101 111101 101110101 110101 1011101 1011110 10111010101 00110010 111111010 11101 101110101 110101 1110110101 10101010 1011111111 01110110 110111111 110101 10100111 1100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 807 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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