Analysis of Lullaby; by the Sea
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Fair is the castle up on the hill--
Hushaby, sweet my own!
The night is fair, and the waves are still,
And the wind is singing to you and to me
In this lowly home beside the sea--
Hushaby, sweet my own!
On yonder hill is store of wealth--
Hushaby, sweet my own!
And revellers drink to a little one's health;
But you and I bide night and day
For the other love that has sailed away--
Hushaby, sweet my own!
See not, dear eyes, the forms that creep
Ghostlike, O my own!
Out of the mists of the murmuring deep;
Oh, see them not and make no cry
Till the angels of death have passed us by--
Hushaby, sweet my own!
Ah, little they reck of you and me--
Hushaby, sweet my own!
In our lonely home beside the sea;
They seek the castle up on the hill,
And there they will do their ghostly will--
Hushaby, O my own!
Here by the sea a mother croons
"Hushaby, sweet my own!"
In yonder castle a mother swoons
While the angels go down to the misty deep,
Bearing a little one fast asleep--
Hushaby, sweet my own!
Scheme | aBaccB dBdeeB fbfggB cBcaab hBhffB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 110101101 1111 011100111 00111011011 011010101 1111 11011111 1111 01001101011 11011101 1010111101 1111 11110111 1111 1101101001 11110111 1010111111 1111 110111101 1111 0101010101 110101101 011111101 1111 11010101 1111 010100101 10101110101 100101101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,024 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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