Analysis of Songs Of Innocence: Introduction
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
Piping down the valleys wild
Piping songs of pleasant glee
On a cloud I saw a child.
And he laughing said to me.
Pipe a song about a Lamb:
So I piped with merry chear,
Piper, pipe that song again--
So I piped, he wept to hear.
Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe
Sing thy songs of happy chear,
So I sung the same again
While he wept with joy to hear
Piper sit thee down and write
In a book that all may read--
So he vanished from my sight
And I pluck'd a hollow reed.
And I made a rural pen,
And I stained the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs,
Every child may joy to hear.
Scheme | ABAB XCDC XCDC EXEX DCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1010101 1011101 1011101 0110111 1010101 1111101 1011101 1111111 1111101 1111101 1110101 1111111 1011101 0011111 1110111 0110101 0110101 0110101 0111101 10011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 561 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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