Analysis of Little Moccasins
Come out, O Little Moccasins, and frolic on the snow!
Come out, O tiny beaded feet, and twinkle in the light!
I'll play the old Red River reel, you used to love it so:
Awake, O Little Moccasins, and dance for me to-night!
Your hair was all a gleamy gold, your eyes a corn-flower blue;
Your cheeks were pink as tinted shells, you stepped light as a fawn;
Your mouth was like a coral bud, with seed pearls peeping through;
As gladdening as Spring you were, as radiant as dawn.
Come out, O Little Moccasins! I'll play so soft and low,
The songs you loved, the old heart-songs that in my mem'ry ring;
O child, I want to hear you now beside the campfire glow!
With all your heart a-throbbing in the simple words you sing.
For there was only you and I, and you were all to me;
And round us were the barren lands, but little did we fear;
Of all God's happy, happy folks the happiest were we. . . .
(Oh, call her, poor old fiddle mine, and maybe she will hear!)
Your mother was a half-breed Cree, but you were white all through;
And I, your father was -- but well, that's neither here nor there;
I only know, my little Queen, that all my world was you,
And now that world can end to-night, and I will never care.
For there's a tiny wooden cross that pricks up through the snow:
(Poor Little Moccasins! you're tired, and so you lie at rest.)
And there's a grey-haired, weary man beside the campfire glow:
(O fiddle mine! the tears to-night are drumming on your breast.)
Scheme | ABAB CDCD AEAE FXFX CGCG AHAH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 11110100010101 11110101010001 11011101111111 01110100011111 11110111101101 11011101111101 11110101111101 111110110011 11110100111101 0111011110111 11111111010101 11110100010111 11110101010111 01100101110111 11110101010001 11011101010111 11010111110111 01110111110111 11011101111111 01111111011101 11010101111101 110100110011111 01011101010101 11010111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,445 |
Words | 281 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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