Analysis of from “Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book”
Christina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the east:
Shine, be increased;
O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the west:
Wane, be at rest.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11011110101 1101 11011110101 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 189 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 19 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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