Analysis of A Lullaby
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
The stars are twinkling in the skies,
The earth is lost in slumbers deep;
So hush, my sweet, and close thine eyes,
And let me lull thy soul to sleep.
Compose thy dimpled hands to rest,
And like a little birdling lie
Secure within thy cozy nest
Upon my loving mother breast,
And slumber to my lullaby,
So hushaby--O hushaby.
The moon is singing to a star
The little song I sing to you;
The father sun has strayed afar,
As baby's sire is straying too.
And so the loving mother moon
Sings to the little star on high;
And as she sings, her gentle tune
Is borne to me, and thus I croon
For thee, my sweet, that lullaby
Of hushaby--O hushaby.
There is a little one asleep
That does not hear his mother's song;
But angel watchers--as I weep--
Surround his grave the night-tide long.
And as I sing, my sweet, to you,
Oh, would the lullaby I sing--
The same sweet lullaby he knew
While slumb'ring on this bosom too--
Were borne to him on angel's wing!
So hushaby--O hushaby.
Scheme | ababcdccdE fgfghdhhde bibigjggjE |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 011100001 0111011 11110111 01111111 01110111 0101011 01011101 01110101 0101110 1111 01110101 01011111 01011101 110101101 01010101 11010111 01110101 11110111 1111110 1111 11010101 11111101 11010111 01110111 01111111 1101011 0111011 1111101 0111111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 944 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 246 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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