Analysis of A Little Girl's Prayer
Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)
Grant me the moment, the lovely moment
That I may lean forth to see
The other buds, the other blooms,
The other leaves on the tree:
That I may take into my bosom
The breeze that is like his brother,
But stiller, lighter, whose faint laughter
Exhoes the joy of the other.
Above on the blue and white cloud-spaces
There are small clouds at play.
I watch their remote, mysterious play-time
In the other far-away.
Grant I may hear the small birds singing
the song that the silence knows...
(The Light and the Shadow whisper together,
The lovely moment grows,
Ripples into the air like water
Away and away without sound,
And the little girl gets up from her praying
On the cold ground)
Scheme | XAXA XBBB XCXC DEBE BFDF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 1101001010 1111111 01010101 0101101 111101110 01111110 110101110 1011010 0110101110 111111 11101010011 0010101 111101110 0110101 0100110010 010101 100101110 01001011 00101111010 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 669 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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