Analysis of A Little Girl Lost
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
Children of the future age,
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
In the age of gold,
Free from winter's cold,
Youth and maiden bright,
To the holy light,
Naked in the sunny beams delight.
Once a youthful pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the curtains of the night.
Then, in rising day,
On the grass they play;
Parents were afar,
Strangers came not near,
And the maiden soon forgot her fear.
Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired wanderers weep.
To her father white
Came the maiden bright;
But his loving look,
Like the holy book
All her tender limbs with terror shook.
'Ona, pale and weak,
To thy father speak!
Oh the trembling fear!
Oh the dismal care
That shakes the blossoms of my hoary hair!'
Scheme | AABB CCDDD EEDDD FFXGG HHIII DDJJJ KKGEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 1010101 1100101 1111101 00111 11101 10101 10101 100010101 10101 11101 10101 10101 1101010101 10101 10111 10001 10111 001010101 101101 10111 10101 110101 0010101001 10101 10101 11101 10101 101011101 01101 11101 101001 10101 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 899 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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