Analysis of Lile Doad
Frederic William Moorman 1872 ( Portishead, ) – 1919 ( Bathwick Hill, Bath,)
The Lord's bin hard on me, Sir,
He's stown my barn away.
O dowly, dowly was that neet
He stole lile Doad away!
'Twas Whissuntide we wedded,
Next Easter he was born,
Just as t' last star i' t' April sky
Had faded into t' morn.
Throstles were singin, canty,(1)
For they'd their young i' t' nest;
But birds don't know a mother's love
That howds her barn to t' breast.
When wark was ower i' summer,
I nussed him on my knees;
An' Mike browt home at lowsin'-time
Wild rasps an' strawberries.
We used to sit on t' door-sill
I' t' leet o' t' harvist-moon,
While our lile Doad would clench his fists
An' suck his toes an' croon.
But when t' mell-sheaf(2) was gotten,
An' back-end days set in,
Wi' frost at neet an' roke(3) by day,
His face gate pinched an' thin.
We niver knew what ailed him,
He faded like a floor,
He faded same as skies'll fade
When t' sun dips into t' moor.
Church bells on Kersmas mornin'
Rang out so merrily,
But cowd an' dreesome were our hearts:
We knew lile Doad must dee.
He lay so still in his creddle,
An' slowly he dwined away,
While(4) I laid two pennies on his een
On Holy Innocents' Day.
The Lord's bin hard on me, Sir,
He's stown my barn away.
O, dowly, dowly was that neet
He stole lile Doad away!
Scheme | ABCB xdxdefxf agxghixi xjbjxxxx dexehbdb ABCB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (28%) |
Metre | 0111111 111101 111111 111101 11110 110111 1111111101 1100111 10110 1111111 11110101 1101111 1111110 111111 1111111 11110 11111111 1111111 110111111 111111 11111110 111110 11111111 111111 1101111 110101 1101111 11110111 11111 111100 11110101 111111 1111011 1101101 111110111 1101001 0111111 111101 111111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,198 |
Words | 244 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 8, 8, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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