Analysis of Little Maiden
Dollie Radford 1858 (England) – 1920
LITTLE maiden are you lonely,
Standing there beside the sea,
Are your blue eyes sad or only
Filled with dreams too fair for me.
Are the summer breezes making
Fairy music on the sand,
And the quiet ripples breaking,
From some sea-girt fairy-land.
Ah, the fragrant flowers never
Fade in that sweet sunny air,
And the fairy people ever
Send you dreams and fancies rare.
Little maiden, you must only
Keep your blue eyes clear and free,
And you never will be lonely,
Standing there beside the sea.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101110 1010101 11111110 1111111 10101010 1010101 00101010 1111101 10101010 1011101 00101010 1110101 10101110 1111101 01101110 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 485 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 390 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 88 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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