Analysis of Laughing Song
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
when the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene,
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing 'Ha, ha he!'
When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha, ha, he!'
Scheme | XXAA BBCC XXCC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 1011110111 00111101 10111110101 0011110111 10111101 0010100101 1100100100 111111111 101011001 110101100111 1101100111 1101101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 538 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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