Analysis of The song of luddy-dud
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
A sunbeam comes a-creeping
Into my dear one's nest,
And sings to our babe a-sleeping
The song that I love the best:
"'T is little Luddy-Dud in the morning -
'T is little Luddy-Dud at night;
And all day long
'T is the same sweet song
Of that waddling, toddling, coddling little mite,
Luddy-Dud."
The bird to the tossing clover,
The bee to the swaying bud,
Keep singing that sweet song over
Of wee little Luddy-Dud.
"'T is little Luddy-Dud in the morning -
'T is little Luddy-Dud at night;
And all day long
'T is the same dear song
Of that growing, crowing, knowing little sprite,
Luddy-Dud."
Scheme | ababACDdcE fefeACDdcE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 011010 011111 011101010 0111101 11101010010 111010111 0111 110111 11110100101 101 01101010 0110101 11011110 1110101 11101010010 111010111 0111 110111 11101010101 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 579 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 223 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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