Analysis of The Least Of These
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
THE wolf of want is howling
At doors no angel keeps.
Young Mary smiled on her Holy Child,
But many a mother weeps.
The Kings of the East brought treasures
Uncounted and unpriced.
Who bears a gift to arms that lift
A little famished Christ?
Scheme | ABCBDCEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111110 111101 110110101 1100101 01101110 1001 11011111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 240 |
Words | 47 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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