Analysis of Hi-spy
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Strange that the city thoroughfare,
Noisy and bustling all the day,
Should with the night renounce its care,
And lend itself to children's play!
Oh, girls are girls, and boys are boys,
And have been so since Abel's birth,
And shall be so till dolls and toys
Are with the children swept from earth.
The self-same sport that crowns the day
Of many a Syrian shepherd's son,
Beguiles the little lads at play
By night in stately Babylon.
I hear their voices in the street,
Yet 't is so different now from then!
Come, brother! from your winding-sheet,
And let us two be boys again!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD BXBX EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1101010 100100101 11010111 01011101 11110111 0111111 01111101 11010111 01111101 1100100101 1010111 1101010 11110001 1111100111 11011101 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 576 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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