Analysis of To a Little Maid - by a Politician
William Schwenck Gilbert 1836 – 1911
Come with me, little maid,
Nay, shrink not, thus afraid -
I'll harm thee not!
Fly not, my love, from me -
I have a home for thee -
A fairy grot,
Where mortal eye
Can rarely pry,
There shall thy dwelling be!
List to me, while I tell
The pleasures of that cell,
Oh, little maid!
What though its couch be rude,
Homely the only food
Within its shade?
No thought of care
Can enter there,
No vulgar swain intrude!
Come with me, little maid,
Come to the rocky shade
I love to sing;
Live with us, maiden rare -
Come, for we "want" thee there,
Thou elfin thing,
To work thy spell,
In some cool cell
In stately Pentonville!
Scheme | Aaxbbaccb ddaeeaffe Aagffgddd |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 111101 1111 111111 110111 0101 1101 1101 111101 111111 010111 1101 111111 100101 0111 1111 1101 110101 111101 110101 1111 111101 111111 1101 1111 0111 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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