Analysis of A Little Boy Lost
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
v'Nought loves another as itself,
Nor venerates another so,
Nor is it possible to thought
A greater than itself to know.
'And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my brothers more?
I love you like the little bird
That picks up crumbs around the door.'
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In trembling zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired the priestly care.
And standing on the altar high,
'Lo, what a fiend is here! said he:
'One who sets reason up for judge
Of our most holy mystery.'
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They stripped him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
Are such thing done on Albion's shore?
Scheme | xaxa xbcb xdxd xexe cFxf xbFb |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010101 1100101 11110011 01010111 01011111 11011101 11110101 11110101 01110101 010011111 11111101 010100101 01010101 11011111 11110111 110110100 01011111 01010101 11111101 01101101 01100101 11011101 01010101 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 845 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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