Analysis of The Dream of a Girl Who Lived at Seven-Oaks

William Brighty Rands 1823 (Chelsea, Middlesex) – 1882 (East Dulwich, London)



Seven sweet singing birds up in a tree;
Seven swift sailing ships white upon the sea;
Seven bright weather-cocks shining in the sun;
Seven slim race-horses ready for a run;
Seven gold butterflies, flitting overhead;
Seven red roses blowing in a garden bed;
Seven white lilies, with honey bees inside them;
Seven round rainbows with clouds to divide them;
Seven pretty little girls with sugar on their lips;
Seven witty little boys, whom everybody tips;
Seven nice fathers, to call little maids joys;
Seven nice mothers, to kiss the little boys;
Seven nights running I dreamt it all plain;
With bread and jam for supper I could dream it all again!


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGH
Poetic Form
Metre 1011011001 10110110101 10110110001 10111010101 1011010101 101101000101 101101101011 1011111011 1010101110111 101010111001 10110111011 10110110101 1011011111 11011101111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 641
Words 113
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 515
Words per stanza (avg) 111
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 14, 2023

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William Brighty Rands

William Brighty Rands (24 December 1823, Chelsea, Middlesex — 23 April 1882, East Dulwich, London) was a British writer and one of the major authors of nursery rhymes of the Victorian era.  more…

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