Analysis of The Fisher Child's Lullaby
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
THE wind is out in its rage to-night,
And your father is far at sea.
The rime on the window is hard and white
But dear, you are near to me.
Heave ho, weave low,
Waves of the briny deep;
Seethe low and breathe low,
But sleep you, my little one, sleep, sleep.
The little boat rocks in the cove no more,
But the flying sea-gulls wail;
I peer through the darkness that wraps the shore,
For sight of a home set sail.
Heave ho, weave low,
Waves of the briny deep;
Seethe low and breathe low,
But sleep you, my little one, sleep, sleep.
Ay, lad of mine, thy father may die
In the gale that rides the sea,
But we'll not believe it, not you and I,
Who mind us of Galilee.
Heave ho, weave low,
Waves of the briny deep;
Seethe low and breathe low,
But sleep you, my little one, sleep, sleep.
Scheme | ababCDCDefefCDCDgbgbCDCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101111 01101111 0110101101 1111111 1111 11011 11011 111110111 0101100111 1010111 1110101101 1110111 1111 11011 11011 111110111 111111011 0011101 1110111101 111110 1111 11011 11011 111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 766 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 584 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 156 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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