Analysis of Innocence Asleep
Samuel Alfred Beadle 1857 (United States of America) – 1932
A fair dark-eyed lassie was she,
Her thirteenth summer passed,
Who pursuing blue-eyed daisy,
Herself had over-tasked;
And fell asleep in the meadow,
Where the wildest flowers blow.
I read the dreams upon her face.
Through dimples in her cheek,
And smiles which trace the subtle grace
Of innocence asleep.
'I was dreaming,' she made reply,
A blush her whole physique,
When my kerchief fell upon the fly
That lit upon her cheek;
Hard by the laughing brooklet's sheen
Caught the poise of her face between,
Demurring pout and sly grimace,
Through her dishelved hair;
As she stood there an angel fair
With innocence awake.
Scheme | AXAXBBCDCX EDEDFFXGGX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 01111011 011101 10101110 011101 0101001 1010101 11010101 110001 01110101 110001 11101101 010101 111010101 110101 1101011 10110101 01010110 1011 11111101 110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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