Analysis of Six Weeks Old
Christopher Morley 1890 (Haverford) – 1957
HE is so small he does not know
The summer sun, the winter snow;
The spring that ebbs and comes again,
All this is far beyond his ken.
A little world he feels and sees:
His mother's arms, his mother's knees;
He hides his face against her breast,
And does not care to learn the rest.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111111 01010101 01110101 11110111 01011101 11011101 11110101 01111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 289 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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