Analysis of The Echoing Green

William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)



The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bell's cheerful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the Echoing Green.

Old John with white hair,
Does laugh away care,
Sitting under the oak,
Among the old folk.
They laugh at our play,
And soon they all say:
'Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth time were seen
On the Echoing Green.'

Till the little ones, weary,
No more can be merry;
The sun does descend,
And our sports have an end.
Round the laps of their mothers
Many sisters and brother,
Like birds in their nest,
Are ready for rest,
And sport no more seen
On the darkening Green.
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Scheme aabbxxccdD eeffgghhdD iijjxxkkdd
Poetic Form
Metre 01101 011001 01011 11001 0101 01101 11001 101101 1101111 101001 11111 11011 101001 01011 111101 01111 11001 111101 0101101 101001 1010110 111110 01101 0101111 1011110 1010010 11011 11011 01111 101001 1
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 714
Words 143
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 10, 10, 11
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 189
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 2023

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William Blake

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