Analysis of How a Little Girl Sang
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
Ah, she was music in herself,
A symphony of joyousness.
She sang, she sang from finger tips,
From every tremble of her dress.
I saw sweet haunting harmony,
An ecstasy, an ecstasy,
In that strange curling of her lips,
That happy curling of her lips.
And quivering with melody
Those eyes I saw, that tossing head.
And so I saw what music was,
Tho' still accursed with ears of lead.
| Scheme | XAAABAAABC AC |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110001 010011 11111101 110010101 11110100 11001100 01110101 11010101 01001100 11111101 01111101 1111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 387 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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