Analysis of Piping Down the Valleys Wild
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
'Pipe a song about a lamb!'
So I piped with merry cheer.
'Piper, pipe that song again.'
So I piped: he wept to hear.
'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe;
Sing thy songs of happy cheer.'
So I sung the same again,
While he wept with joy to hear.
'Piper, sit thee down and write
In a book, that all may read.'
So he vanished from my sight,
And I plucked a hollow reed,
And I made a rural pen,
And I stained the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.
Scheme | ABAB XCDE XCDE FXFX DCXE |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Quatrain (20%) |
Metre | 1010101 1011101 1011101 0110111 1010101 1111101 1011101 1111111 1111101 1111101 1110101 1111111 1011101 0011111 1110111 0110101 0110101 0110101 0111101 10011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 575 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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