Analysis of Mother and child
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
One night a tiny dewdrop fell
Into the bosom of a rose,--
"Dear little one, I love thee well,
Be ever here thy sweet repose!"
Seeing the rose with love bedight,
The envious sky frowned dark, and then
Sent forth a messenger of light
And caught the dewdrop up again.
"Oh, give me back my heavenly child,--
My love!" the rose in anguish cried;
Alas! the sky triumphant smiled,
And so the flower, heart-broken, died.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD CCCC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101011 01010101 11011111 11011101 1001111 010011101 11010011 0101101 111111001 11010101 01010101 010101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 415 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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