Analysis of Little Waxy
Cicely Fox Smith 1882 (Lymm, Cheshire) – 1954 (Bow, Devon)
Wake, little Waxy! Hunting-time again,
The short days and goodly, the clean Autumn rain:
In the old North country, in the grey open weather,
Hounds upon the moorland chiming all together.
This year in dough and hollow the stream's song sounds the same:
On every windy hillside the grasses burn like flame:
Where the empty air is loud with the peewit's lonely crying
And the call o' the moorland gale to the bird's call replying.
Wake, little Waxy! Voices that you know
Set the upland ringing where the hill-breezes blow;
In the brave North country, in the grey open weather,
Up and Join the chorus, hound and horn together!
Ah, little Waxy! Hunting days are done,
Nevermore the brown field and the rain and the sun -
Only the memories left, o'er the Autumn fields that hover,
Of the brave runs ended, lass, the good days over!
Scheme | XXAA BBCC DDAA EEAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1101010101 01101001101 0011100011010 1010111010 1101010011101 1100101010111 10101111011010 00110111011010 1101010111 101010101101 0011100011010 101010101010 1101010111 10011001001 1001001100101110 101110101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 819 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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