Analysis of Crying, My Little One, Footsore And Weary?
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Crying, my little one, footsore and weary?
Fall asleep, pretty one, warm on my shoulder:
I must tramp on through the winter night dreary,
While the snow falls on me colder and colder.
You are my one, and I have not another;
Sleep soft, my darling, my trouble and treasure;
Sleep warm and soft in the arms of your mother,
Dreaming of pretty things, dreaming of pleasure.
| Scheme | ABABBBBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011011010 10110111110 11111010110 10111110010 11110111010 11110110010 11010011110 10110110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 377 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 287 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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