Analysis of The Little Girl Found
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
All the night in woe,
Lyca's parents go:
Over vallies deep.
While the desarts weep.
Tired and woe-begone.
Hoarse with making moan:
Arm in arm seven days.
They trac'd the desert ways.
Seven nights they sleep.
Among shadows deep:
And dream they see their child
Starvdd in desart wild.
Pale thro' pathless ways
The fancied image strays.
Famish'd, weeping, weak
With hollow piteous shriek
Rising from unrest,
The trembling woman prest,
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
In his arms he bore.
Her arm'd with sorrow sore:
Till before their way
A couching lion lay.
Turning back was vain,
Soon his heavy mane.
Bore them to the ground;
Then he stalk'd around.
Smelling to his prey,
But their fears allay,
When he licks their hands:
And silent by them stands.
They look upon his eyes
Fill'd with deep surprise:
And wondering behold.
A spirit arm'd in gold.
On his head a crown
On his shoulders down,
Flow'd his golden hair.
Gone was all their care.
Follow me he said,
Weep not for the maid;
In my palace deep.
Lyca lies asleep.
Then they followed,
Where the vision led;
And saw their sleeping child,
Among tygers wild.
To this day they dwell
In a lonely dell
Nor fear the wolvish howl,
Nor the lion's growl.
Scheme | AABB CCDD BBEE DDFF GGAA HHII CCJJ IIKK LLMM CCNN OXBB XOEE PPQQ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (85%) |
Metre | 10101 1101 1011 1011 10011 11101 101101 110101 10111 0111 011111 1011 1111 010101 10101 11011 10101 0100101 111101 111101 01111 011101 10111 010101 10111 11101 11101 11101 10111 11101 11111 010111 110111 11101 010001 010101 11101 11101 11101 11111 10111 11101 01101 1101 1110 10101 011101 0111 11111 00101 11011 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,169 |
Words | 220 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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