Analysis of Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard
James Henry Leigh Hunt 1784 (Southgate, London) – 1859
We, the Fairies, blithe and antic,
Of dimensions not gigantic,
Though the moonshine mostly keep us,
Oft in orchards frisk and peep us.
Stolen sweets are always sweeter,
Stolen kisses much completer,
Stolen looks are nice in chapels,
Stolen, stolen, be your apples.
When to bed the world are bobbing,
Then's the time for orchard-robbing;
Yet the fruit were scarce worth peeling,
Were it not for stealing, stealing.
Scheme | AABB CCBX DDDD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10101010 10101010 1011011 10101011 1011110 101011 1011101 10101110 11101110 10111010 10101110 01111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 410 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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