Analysis of The Little Folks
Warbard 1967 (Los Angeles)
Full moon bright, reflecting light,
As the sunlight parts away,
The wooded lands, in darkness stands,
And the little folks are at play.
For pranks they play, on all they prey,
Causing fear to man and beast,
So bar your homes, for about they roam,
And wait till the sun rises east.
No mortal man, and if he can,
Would walk the woods at night,
For elves, they dance, and gnomes, they prance,
And the faeries are at flight.
And trolls, they chase all who would flee,
To them, it’s just for fun,
And pixies pull on the hair of fools,
And laugh to see them run.
With mischievous wrong, they run along,
And havoc they leave behind,
For what man don’t see, that little folks be,
Like a child, in play, and mind.
So if you’re out at night, when the full moon’s bright,
And the sunlight parts away,
If voices you hear, little eyes that peer,
Then the little folks are at play.
Scheme | ABXB BCXC XAXA DEXE XFDF ABXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1110101 101101 01010101 00101111 11111111 1011101 111110111 01101101 11010111 110111 11110111 001111 01111111 111111 01110111 011111 110011101 0101101 1111111011 1010101 11111110111 001101 1101110111 10101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 852 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Written on 1985
Submitted by Warbard on September 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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