Analysis of Child and mother
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
O mother-my-love, if you'll give me your hand,
And go where I ask you to wander,
I will lead you away to a beautiful land,--
The Dreamland that's waiting out yonder.
We'll walk in a sweet posie-garden out there,
Where moonlight and starlight are streaming,
And the flowers and the birds are filling the air
With the fragrance and music of dreaming.
There'll be no little tired-out boy to undress,
No questions or cares to perplex you,
There'll be no little bruises or bumps to caress,
Nor patching of stockings to vex you;
For I'll rock you away on a silver-dew stream
And sing you asleep when you're weary,
And no one shall know of our beautiful dream
But you and your own little dearie.
And when I am tired I'll nestle my head
In the bosom that's soothed me so often,
And the wide-awake stars shall sing, in my stead,
A song which our dreaming shall soften.
So, Mother-my-Love, let me take your dear hand,
And away through the starlight we'll wander,--
Away through the mist to the beautiful land,--
The Dreamland that's waiting out yonder.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111111 011111110 111101101001 01110110 1100111011 1101110 001000111001 1010010110 1011101011101 110111011 1011101011101 110110111 111101101011 011011110 011111101001 11011101 01111011011 0010111110 00101111011 0111010110 11011111111 001101110 01101101001 01110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,039 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 269 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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