Analysis of Little miss brag

Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)



Little Miss Brag has much to say
To the rich little lady from over the way
And the rich little lady puts out a lip
As she looks at her own white, dainty slip,
And wishes that she could wear a gown
As pretty as gingham of faded brown!
For little Miss Brag she lays much stress
On the privileges of a gingham dress -
   "Aha,
    Oho!"

The rich little lady from over the way
Has beautiful dolls in vast array;
Yet she envies the raggedy home-made doll
She hears our little Miss Brag extol.
For the raggedy doll can fear no hurt
From wet, or heat, or tumble, or dirt!
Her nose is inked, and her mouth is, too,
And one eye's black and the other's blue -
   "Aha,
    Oho!"

The rich little lady goes out to ride
With footmen standing up outside,
Yet wishes that, sometimes, after dark
Her father would trundle her in the park; -
That, sometimes, her mother would sing the things
Little Miss Brag says her mother sings
When through the attic window streams
The moonlight full of golden dreams -
   "Aha,
    Oho!"

Yes, little Miss Brag has much to say
To the rich little lady from over the way;
And yet who knows but from her heart
Often the bitter sighs upstart -
Uprise to lose their burn and sting
In the grace of the tongue that loves to sing
Praise of the treasures all its own!
So I've come to love that treble tone -
   "Aha,
    Oho!"


Scheme aAbbccddEE aaxxffggEE hhiijjkkEE aAllmmnnEE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Etheree  (25%)
Metre 10111111 101101011001 00110101101 1111011101 010111101 1101101101 110111111 1010010101 1 1 01101011001 110010101 1110100111 1110101101 1010011111 111111011 011100111 011100101 1 1 0110101111 1110111 110101101 0101100001 1010101101 101110101 11010101 0111101 1 1 110111111 101101011001 01111101 1001011 10111101 0011011111 11010111 111111101 1 1
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,305
Words 261
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 10, 10, 10, 10
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 252
Words per stanza (avg) 64
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:18 min read
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Eugene Field

Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. more…

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