Analysis of A Little Song
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
When you, my Dear, are away, away,
How wearily goes the creeping day.
A year drags after morning, and night
Starts another year of candle light.
O Pausing Sun and Lingering Moon!
Grant me, I beg of you, this boon.
Whirl round the earth as never sun
Has his diurnal journey run.
And, Moon, slip past the ladders of air
In a single flash, while your streaming hair
Catches the stars and pulls them down
To shine on some slumbering Chinese town.
O Kindly Sun! Understanding Moon!
Bring evening to crowd the footsteps of noon.
But when that long awaited day
Hangs ripe in the heavens, your voyaging stay.
Be morning, O Sun! with the lark in song,
Be afternoon for ages long.
And, Moon, let you and your lesser lights
Watch over a century of nights.
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFFCC AAGGHH |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111110101 110010101 011101001 101011101 110101001 11111111 11011101 11010101 011101011 0010111101 10010111 1111100011 11010101 110110111 11110101 110010111 1101110101 1011101 011101101 110010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 752 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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