Analysis of Girl-Gladness
Zora Bernice May Cross 1890 (Eagle Farm, Queensland) – 1964 (Glenbrook, New South Wales)
It’s holiday time on the hollyhock hills,
And I wish you would come with me laddie-love, now,
The butterfly-bells, from the Folly-fool rills,
Will ring if you listen, and drop on your brow.
So, dear come along,
I’ve a kiss and a song,
And I know where the fairies are forging a gong
To ring up the elves to a festival fair
Of snippets of sunshine and apples of air.
O laddie, my laddie, quick, run out of school,
And away with a shout and a shake of the head;
I’ll pick you a pearl from the pigeon-pink pool
Where cuddles and kisses are going to bed,
Away, come away To the lands of the fay,
For the afternoon tinkles your lassie-love’s lay.
Play truant with Time, and while Age is asleep
I’ll give you the heart of my girlhood to keep.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110101 01111111111 0101101011 11111001111 11101 101001 011101011001 11101101001 1101101011 111111111 001101001101 11101101011 1101011011 01101101101 1001111011 11011011101 1110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 752 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 563 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 142 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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