Analysis of To My Daughter
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
O little one, daughter, my dearest,
With your smiles and your beautiful curls,
And your laughter, the brightest and clearest,
O gravest and gayest of girls;
With your hands that are softer than roses,
And your lips that are lighter than flowers,
And that innocent brow that discloses
A wisdom more lovely than ours;
With your locks that encumber, or scatter
In a thousand mercurial gleams,
And those feet whose impetuous patter
I hear and remember in dreams;
With your manner of motherly duty,
When you play with your dolls and are wise;
With your wonders of speech, and the beauty
In your little imperious eyes;
When I hear you so silverly ringing
Your welcome from chamber or stair.
When you run to me, kissing and clinging,
So radiant, so rosily fair;
I bend like an ogre above you;
I bury my face in your curls;
I fold you, I clasp you, I love you.
O baby, queen-blossom of girls!
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI JAJA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110110110 111011001 0110010010 1100111 1111110110 0111110110 0110011010 010110110 1111010110 001001001 011101010 11001001 1110110010 111111011 1110110010 011001001 11111110 11011011 1111110010 1100111 111110011 11011011 111111111 11011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 869 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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