Analysis of from “Sing-song: A Nursery Rhyme Book”
Christina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Is the moon tired? she looks so pale
Within her misty veil:
She scales the sky from east to west,
And takes no rest.
Before the coming of the night
The moon shows papery white;
Before the dawning of the day
She fades away.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 101101111 010101 11011111 0111 01010101 0111001 01010101 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 215 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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