Analysis of The Little London Girl
Kate Greenaway 1846 – 1901
IN my little Green House, quite content am I,
When the hot sun pours down from the sky;
For oh, I love the country–the beautiful country.
Who'd live in a London street when there's the country?
I live in a London street, then I long and long
To be the whole day the sweet Flowers among
Instead of tall chimney-pots up in the sky,
The joy of seeing Birds and Dragon Flies go by.
At home I lie in bed, and cannot go to sleep,
For the sound of cart-wheels upon the hard street.
But here my eyes close up to no sound of anything
Except it is to hear the nightingales sing.
And then I see the Chickens and the Geese go walking,
I hear the Pigs and the Ducks all talking.
And the Red and the Spotted Cows they stare at me,
As if they wondered whoever I could be.
I see the little Lambs out with their mothers–
Such pretty little white young sisters and brothers.
Oh, I'll stay in the country, and make a daisy chain,
And never go back to London again.
Scheme | AABB XXAA XXCC CCBB DDXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01101111011 101111101 1111010010010 110010111010 110010111101 11011011001 01111011001 011101010111 111101010111 10111101011 111111111110 011111011 0111010001110 1101001110 001001011111 11110010111 11010111110 110101110010 1110010010101 0101111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 938 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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