Analysis of A Child-World
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
_The Child-World--long and long since lost to view--
A Fairy Paradise!--
How always fair it was and fresh and new--
How every affluent hour heaped heart and eyes
With treasures of surprise!
Enchantments tangible: The under-brink
Of dawns that launched the sight
Up seas of gold: The dewdrop on the pink,
With all the green earth in it and blue height
Of heavens infinite:
The liquid, dripping songs of orchard-birds--
The wee bass of the bees,--
With lucent deeps of silence afterwards;
The gay, clandestine whisperings of the breeze
And glad leaves of the trees.
* * * * *
O Child-World: After this world--just as when
I found you first sufficed
My soulmost need--if I found you again,
With all my childish dream so realised,
I should not be surprised._
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011111 01010 111110101 1100100101101 110101 11000101 111101 111101101 1101101011 110100 0101011101 011101 1101110100 010101101 011101 1 1111011111 111101 111111101 11110111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 742 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 1, 5 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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