Analysis of What Uncle Rob Says
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
Uncle Rob says,
That once on a time the fire flies
Were stars with the others up in the skies.
They used to shimmer, and dance and play,
Night after night in the Milky Way.
But when their papa, the stern old Sun
Said 'off to bed with you every one,'
These bold little stars refused to obey,
'Let's hide in that cloud and then run away.'
'Let's run to the earth,' these bad stars said
'We are quite too old to be sent to bed.'
So then they were exiled out of the skies,
And that's how we came with the fire flies,
So Uncle Rob says.
Scheme | ABB CC DD CC EE BBA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 111010101 0110101001 111100101 110100101 111100111 1111111001 1110101101 1101101101 111011111 1111111111 111011101 0111110101 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 526 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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