Analysis of The Star
Jane Taylor 1783 (London) – 1824
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
When the blazing sun is set,
And the grass with dew is wet,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Then the traveler in the dark
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see where to go
If you did not twinkle so.
In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye
Till the sun is in the sky.
As your bright and tiny spark
Lights the traveler in the dark,
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
Scheme | Aabb ccdd eeff ggbb eeaA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1010101 1110111 1010111 1010001 1010111 0011111 1111101 1010101 10100001 1111101 1111111 1111101 0011111 01011101 1110111 1011001 1110101 10100001 1111111 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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