Analysis of Lullaby
Louisa May Alcott 1832 – 1888
Now the day is done,
Now the shepherd sun
Drives his white flocks from the sky;
Now the flowers rest
On their mother's breast,
Hushed by her low lullaby.
Now the glowworms glance,
Now the fireflies dance,
Under fern-boughs green and high;
And the western breeze
To the forest trees
Chants a tuneful lullaby.
Now 'mid shadows deep
Falls blessed sleep,
Like dew from the summer sky;
And the whole earth dreams,
In the moon's soft beams,
While night breathes a lullaby.
Now, birdlings, rest,
In your wind-rocked nest,
Unscared by the owl's shrill cry;
For with folded wings
Little Brier swings,
And singeth your lullaby.
Scheme | AABCCB DDBEEB FFBGGB CCBHHB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 10101 1111101 10101 11101 110110 1011 10101 1011101 00101 10101 101010 1111 111 1110101 00111 00111 111010 111 01111 110111 11101 10101 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 625 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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