Analysis of Norse lullaby
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
The sky is dark and the hills are white
As the storm-king speeds from the north to-night,
And this is the song the storm-king sings,
As over the world his cloak he flings:
"Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep;"
He rustles his wings and gruffly sings:
"Sleep, little one, sleep."
On yonder mountain-side a vine
Clings at the foot of a mother pine;
The tree bends over the trembling thing,
And only the vine can hear her sing:
"Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep;
What shall you fear when I am here?
Sleep, little one, sleep."
The king may sing in his bitter flight,
The tree may croon to the vine to-night,
But the little snowflake at my breast
Liketh the song I sing the best,--
Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep;
Weary thou art, anext my heart
Sleep, little one, sleep.
Scheme | aabbCbC ddeeCxC aaffCxC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011100111 1011110111 011010111 110011111 111011 11110101 11011 11010101 110110101 0111001001 010011101 111011 11111111 11011 011101101 011110111 10101111 1011101 111011 1011111 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 755 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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