Analysis of The White Wido
James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950
The moon comes every night to peep
Through the window where I lie,
And I pretend to be asleep;
But I watch the moon as it goes by,
And it never makes a sound.
It stands and stares, and then it goes
To the house that's next to me,
Stealing on its tippy-toes,
To peep at folk asleep maybe;
And it never makes a sound.
Scheme | ababC dedeC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 011100111 1010111 01011101 111011111 0110101 11010111 1011111 1011101 11110110 0110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 322 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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