Analysis of Song: Oh! Go to Sleep
Joseph Rodman Drake 1795 (New York City) – 1820 (New York City)
Oh! go to sleep, my baby dear,
And I will hold thee on my knee;
Thy mother's in her winding sheet,
And thou art all that's left to me.
My hairs are white with grief and age,
I've borne the weight of every ill,
And I would lay me with my child,
But thou art left to love me still.
Should thy false father see thy face,
The tears would fill his cruel e'e,
But he has scorned thy mother's woe,
And he shall never look on thee:
But I will rear thee up alone,
And with me thou shalt aye remain;
For thou wilt have thy mother's smile,
And I shall see my child again.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 01111111 11000101 01111111 11111101 110111001 01111111 11111111 11110111 011111011 11111101 01110111 11111101 01111101 11111101 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 568 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 211 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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