Analysis of The Dangerous Little Boy Fairies
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
In fairyland the little boys
Would rather fight than eat their meals.
They like to chase a gauze-winged fly
And catch and beat him till he squeals.
Sometimes they come to sleeping men
Armed with the deadly red-rose thorn,
And those that feel its fearful wound
Repent the day that they were born.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100101 11011111 11110111 01011111 01111101 11010111 01111101 01011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 296 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 237 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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