Analysis of A Child's Evensong
Richard Le Gallienne 1866 (Liverpool) – 1947
The sun is weary, for he ran
So far and fast to-day;
The birds are weary, for who sang
So many songs as they?
The bees and butterflies at last
Are tired out, for just think too
How many gardens through the day
Their little wings have fluttered through.
And so, as all tired people do,
They've gone to lay their sleepy heads
Deep deep in warm and happy beds.
The sun has shut his golden eye
And gone to sleep beneath the sky,
The birds and butterflies and bees
Have all crept into flowers and trees,
And all lie quiet, still as mice,
Till morning comes - like father's voice.
So Geoffrey, Owen, Phyllis, you
Must sleep away till morning too.
Close little eyes, down little heads,
And sleep - sleep - sleep in happy beds.
Scheme | XAXAXBABBCCDDEEXX BBCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110111 110111 01110111 110111 0101011 11011111 11010101 11011101 011110101 11111101 11010101 01111101 01110101 0101001 111011001 01110111 11011101 11010101 11011101 11011101 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 702 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 4 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 278 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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