Analysis of Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard

James Henry Leigh Hunt 1784 (Southgate, London) – 1859



We, the Fairies, blithe and antic,
Of dimensions not gigantic,
Though the moonshine mostly keep us,
Oft in orchards frisk and peep us.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter,
Stolen kisses much completer,
Stolen looks are nice in chapels,
Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

When to bed the world are bobbing,
Then's the time for orchard-robbing;
Yet the fruit were scarce worth peeling,
Were it not for stealing, stealing.


Scheme AABB CCBX DDDD
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 10101010 10101010 1011011 10101011 1011110 101011 1011101 10101110 11101110 10111010 10101110 01111010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 410
Words 70
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 109
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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James Henry Leigh Hunt

James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet and writer. more…

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