Analysis of Water Lilies
Alan Alexander Milne 1882 – 1956
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.
Scheme | aAbbbbccbdbbbdbeeaAdb |
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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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