Analysis of A Little Song Of Life
Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935
Glad that I live am I;
That the sky is blue;
Glad for the country lanes,
And the fall of dew.
After the sun the rain;
After the rain the sun;
This is the way of life,
Till the work be done.
All that we need to do,
Be we low or high,
Is to see that we grow
Nearer the sky.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC BAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111 10111 110101 00111 100101 100101 110111 10111 111111 11111 111111 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 268 |
Words | 64 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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