Analysis of Water Lilies



Where the water-lilies go
To and fro,
Rocking in the ripples of the water,
Lazy on a leaf lies the Lake King's daugher,
And the faint winds shake her.
Who will come and take her?
I will! I will!
Keep still! Keep still!
Sleeping on a leaf lies the Lake King's daughter. . . .
Then the wind comes skipping
To the lilies on the water;
And the kind winds wake her.
Now who will take her?
With a laugh she is slipping
Through the lilies on the water.
Wait! Wait!
Too late, too late!
Only the water-lilies go
To and fro,
Dipping, dipping,
To the ripples of the water.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1010101 101 1000101010 1010110111 001110 111010 1111 1111 10101101110 101110 10101010 001110 11110 1011110 10101010 11 1111 10010101 101 1010 10101010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 549
Words 109
Sentences 18
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 21
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 423
Words per stanza (avg) 110
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 19, 2023

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Alan Alexander Milne

Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. more…

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