Analysis of A Joyful Song Of Five
Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)
Come, let us all sing very high
And all sing very loud
And keep on singing in the street
Until there's quite a crowd;
And keep on singing in the house
And up and down the stairs;
Then underneath the furniture
Let's all play Polar bears;
And crawl about with doormats on,
And growl and howl and squeak,
Then in the garden let us fly
And play at hid and seek;
And "Here we gather Nuts and May,"
"I wrote a Letter" too,
"Here we go round the Mulberry Bush,"
"The Child who lost its shoe";
And every game we ever played.
And then--to stay alive--
Let's end with lots of Birthday Cake
Because to-day you're five.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC XDAD XEXE XFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111101 011101 01110001 011101 01110001 010101 1010100 111101 0101111 010101 10010111 011101 01110101 110101 11110101 011111 010011101 011101 1111111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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