Analysis of What Grandpa Mouse Said
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
The moon’s a holy owl-queen.
She keeps them in a jar
Under her arm till evening,
Then sallies forth to war.
She pours the owls upon us.
They hoot with horrid noise
And eat the naughty mousie-girls
And wicked mousie-boys.
So climb the moonvine every night
And to the owl-queen pray:
Leave good green cheese by moonlit trees
For her to take away.
And never squeak, my children,
Nor gnaw the smoke-house door:
The owl-queen then will love us
And send her birds no more.
Scheme | XXXA BCXC XDXD XABA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 0101011 111001 1001110 110111 1101011 111101 0101011 01011 11011001 010111 1111111 101101 0101110 110111 0111111 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 461 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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