Analysis of A Fairy Lullaby
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
There are two stars in yonder steeps
That watch the baby while he sleeps.
But while the baby is awake
And singing gayly all day long,
The little stars their slumbers take
Lulled by the music of his song.
So sleep, dear tired baby, sleep
While little stars their vigils keep.
Beside his loving mother-sheep
A little lambkin is asleep;
What does he know of midnight gloom---
He sleeps, and in his quiet dreams
He thinks he plucks the clover bloom
And drinks at cooling, purling streams.
And those same stars the baby knows
Sing softly to the lamb's repose.
Sleep, little lamb; sleep, little child--
The stars are dim--the night is wild;
But o'er the cot and o'er the lea
A sleepless eye forever beams--
A shepherd watches over thee
In all thy little baby dreams;
The shepherd loves his tiny sheep--
Sleep, precious little lambkin, sleep!
Scheme | AABCBCDD DDEAEAAA FFGAGADD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11010111 11010101 0101111 0101111 11010111 11110101 11011101 01110101 0101101 1111111 11001101 11110101 0111011 01110101 11010101 11011101 01110111 1100101001 01010101 01010101 01110101 01011101 1101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 818 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 218 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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