Analysis of The Little Boy Found
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
The little boy lost in the lonely fen,
Led by the wandering light,
Began to cry, but God, ever nigh,
Appeared like his father, in white.
He kissed the child, and by the hand led,
And to his mother brought,
Who in sorrow pale, through the lonely dale,
The little boy weeping sought.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0101100101 1101001 011111101 01111001 110101011 011101 1010110101 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 298 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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