Analysis of Bo-Peep
Walter Crane 1845 – 1915
1.
Little Bo-Peep, she lost her sheep,
And didn't know where to find them;
Let them alone, they'll all come home
And bring their tails behind them.
2.
Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamt she heard them bleating;
But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
For they were still a-fleeting.
3.
Then up she took her little crook,
Determined for to find them,
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed
For they'd left their tails behind them.
4.
It happened one day as Bo-Peep did stray
Into a meadow hard by,
There she espied their tails side by side,
All hung on a tree to dry.
5.
She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye,
Then went o'er hill and dale,
And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,
To tack to each sheep its tail.
Scheme | ABCXC ABDDD ADCXC AXEXE AEFXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 10111101 01011111 11011111 0111011 1 10111101 011111 1110111101 1101010 1 11110101 0101111 11101111011 11111011 1 1101111111 010111 11111111 1110111 1 11010101 1110101 011111011 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 729 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 16, 2023
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