Analysis of The Land Of Nowhere
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
Do you know where the summer blooms all the year 'round,
Where there never is rain on a pic-nic day?
Where the thornless rose in its beauty blows
And little boys never are called from play?
Then, oh! hey! it is far away-
In the wonderful land of Nowhere.
Would you like to live where nobody scolds,
Where you never are told 'it is time for bed,'
Where you learn without trying and laugh without crying,
Where snarls never pull when they comb your head?
Then, oh! hey! it is far away
In the wonderful land of Nowhere.
Do you long to dwell where you never need wait,
Where no one is punished or made to cry,
Where a supper of cakes is not followed by aches
And little folks thrive on a diet of pie?
Then, oh! hey! you must go away
To the wonderful land of Nowhere.
You must drift down the river of idle dreams,
Close to the border of No-man's-land.
For a year and a day you must sail away
And then you will come to an unknown strand
And oh! hey! if you get there-stay
In the wonderful land of Nowhere!
Scheme | xaxaAB xcxcAB xdxdab xeaeaB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101011011 11101110111 101101101 0101101111 11111101 00100111 11111111 11101111111 1110110010110 1110111111 11111101 00100111 11111111011 1111101111 101011111011 01011101011 11111101 10100111 11110101101 110101111 10100111101 0111111011 01111111 00100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 984 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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