Analysis of I'd Love To Be A Fairy's Child
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
Children born of fairy stock
Never need for shirt or frock,
Never want for food or fire,
Always get their hearts desire:
Jingle pockets full of gold,
Marry when they're seven years old.
Every fairy child may keep
Two ponies and ten sheep;
All have houses, each his own,
Built of brick or granite stone;
They live on cherries, they run wild--
I'd love to be a Fairy's child.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101 1011111 10111110 1111010 1010111 10111011 10010111 110011 1110111 1111101 11110111 1111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 370 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 289 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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