Analysis of Dutch lullaby
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe,--
Sailed on a river of misty light
Into a sea of dew.
"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
The old moon asked the three.
"We have come to fish for the herring-fish
That live in this beautiful sea;
Nets of silver and gold have we,"
Said Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.
The old moon laughed and sung a song,
As they rocked in the wooden shoe;
And the wind that sped them all night long
Ruffled the waves of dew;
The little stars were the herring-fish
That lived in the beautiful sea.
"Now cast your nets wherever you wish,
But never afeard are we!"
So cried the stars to the fishermen three,
Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.
All night long their nets they threw
For the fish in the twinkling foam,
Then down from the sky came the wooden shoe,
Bringing the fishermen home;
'T was all so pretty a sail, it seemed
As if it could not be;
And some folk thought 't was a dream they'd dreamed
Of sailing that beautiful sea;
But I shall name you the fishermen three:
Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.
Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,
And Nod is a little head,
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
Is a wee one's trundle-bed;
So shut your eyes while Mother sings
Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
As you rock on the misty sea
Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three,--
Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 1100101 110101101 010111 1111001111 011101 1111110101 11011001 11100111 11 1 01 01110101 11100101 001111111 100111 010100101 11001001 111101011 110111 1101101001 1 1 01 1111111 101001001 1110110101 1001001 1111100111 111111 0111110111 11011001 1111101001 1 1 01 10111101 0110101 001011101 1011101 11111101 1100111 011101001 11110101 1011101001 1 1 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,439 |
Words | 270 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12, 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 267 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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