Analysis of Garden and cradle
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
When our babe he goeth walking in his garden,
Around his tinkling feet the sunbeams play;
The posies they are good to him,
And bow them as they should to him,
As fareth he upon his kingly way;
And birdlings of the wood to him
Make music, gentle music, all the day,
When our babe he goeth walking in his garden.
When our babe he goeth swinging in his cradle,
Then the night it looketh ever sweetly down;
The little stars are kind to him,
The moon she hath a mind to him
And layeth on his head a golden crown;
And singeth then the wind to him
A song, the gentle song of Bethlem-town,
When our babe he goeth swinging in his cradle.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111100110 0111001011 0111111 01111111 111011101 0110111 1101010101 110111100110 110111100110 1011110101 01011111 01110111 011110101 0110111 010101111 110111100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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