Analysis of Village Song
HONEY, child, honey, child, whither are you going?
Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes blowing?
Would you leave the mother who on golden grain has fed you?
Would you grieve the lover who is riding forth to wed you?
Mother mine, to the wild forest I am going,
Where upon the champa boughs the champa buds are blowing;
To the köil-haunted river-isles where lotus lilies glisten,
The voices of the fairy folk are calling me: O listen!
Honey, child, honey, child, the world is full of pleasure,
Of bridal-songs and cradle-songs and sandal-scented leisure.
Your bridal robes are in the loom, silver and saffron glowing,
Your bridal cakes are on the hearth: O whither are you going?
The bridal-songs and cradle-songs have cadences of sorrow,
The laughter of the sun to-day, the wind of death to-morrow.
Far sweeter sound the forest-notes where forest-streams are falling;
O mother mine, I cannot stay, the fairy-folk are calling.
Scheme | AABB AACC DDAA EEAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101101101110 1111101101010 11101011101111 11101011101111 101101101110 10101010101110 1011101011101010 010101011101110 1011010111110 110101010101010 110110011001010 110111011101110 010101011100110 010101110111110 110101011101110 110111010101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 939 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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