Analysis of Seal Lullaby
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us
And black are the waters that sparkled so green.
The moon, O'er the combers, looks downward to find us
At rest in the hollows that rustle between.
Where billow meets billow, there soft by the pillow.
Oh, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!
The storm shall not wake thee, no shark shall overtake thee
Asleep in the storm of slow-swinging seas.
Scheme | ABABCDED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110011011 01101011011 011001110111 11001011001 110110111010 110111111 011111111101 0100111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 395 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 307 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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