Analysis of Uruguayan Lullaby



Under the shining stars,
Children sleep at night
Accompany by a melodious song
Of croaking frogs,
Tapping rhythmically over lily pads;
Crickets tuning their wings;
Grasshoppers leaping from time to time,
And rubbing the edge of their wings
Against the other ones.
Juvenile nightingales
Sing along, exquisite tunes,
To keep themselves awake all night.
A sleepy weeping willow yawns
By the sound of the lullaby
And soon its branches
Join the dance of the fireflies.
The wind carries the soothing sound
Of the lullaby to those children
Still awake in the night.


Scheme ABCDEFGFHAIBJKLMNOB
Poetic Form
Metre 100101 10111 01001001001 1101 1010010101 101011 10101111 01001111 010101 1001 1011001 11010111 0101011 1011010 01110 1011010 01100101 10101110 101001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 540
Words 92
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 456
Words per stanza (avg) 92
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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