Analysis of Song by the Window Before Bed

Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)



Little Star, little Star,
Come down quick.
The Moon is a bogey-man;
He'll eat you certain if he can.
Little Star, little Star,
Come down quick!

Little Star, little Star,
Whisper "Yes."
The trees are just niggers all,
They look so black, the are so tall.
Little Star, little Star,
Whisper "Yes"

Little Star, little Star,
Gone--all gone.
The bogey-man swallowed you,
The nigger trees are laughing too.
Little Star, little Star,
Gone--all gone.


Scheme ABccAB ADeeAD AFggAF
Poetic Form
Metre 101101 111 0110101 11110111 101101 111 101101 101 0111101 11110111 101101 101 101101 111 0101101 01011101 101101 111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 432
Words 77
Sentences 9
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 111
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. more…

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