Analysis of The Little Folks



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
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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Poet & Philosopher, Soldier & Scholar, Warrior & Writer, Husband & Historian, Father & Freemason. Since the early '80s, Warbard has been a pen name for Shelby Chandler who is a historian and has made a home for his wife and four daughters in the area of Fredericksburg, Virginia. more…

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