Analysis of My Baby Sleeps
George A. Mackenzie 1636 ( Dundee) – 1691 ( Edinburgh)
The wind is loud in the west to-night,
But Baby sleeps;
The wild wind blows with all its might,
But Baby sleeps;
My Baby sleeps, and he does not hear
The noise of the storm in the pine trees near.
The snow is drifting high to-night,
But Baby sleeps;
The bitter world is cold and white,
But Baby sleeps;
My Baby sleeps, so fast, so fast,
That he does not heed the wintry blast.
The cold snows drift, and the wild winds rave,
But Baby sleeps;
And a white cross stands by his little grave,
While Baby sleeps;
And the storm is loud in the rocking pine,
But its moan is not so deep as mine.
| Scheme | aBaBxx aBaBcc dBdbee |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011100111 1101 01111111 1101 110101111 0110100111 01110111 1101 01011101 1101 11011111 111110101 011100111 1101 0011111101 1101 0011100101 111111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 585 |
| Words | 118 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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