Analysis of Our Little Baby Fell Asleep
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Our little baby fell asleep,
And may not wake again
For days and days, and weeks and weeks;
But then he'll wake again,
And come with his own pretty look,
And kiss Mamma again.
| Scheme | ABCBDB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010101 011101 11010101 111101 01111101 011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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