Analysis of The First Time
THE FIRST TIME
By Eula E. Bourne
I never heard you coming
You never made a sound
Yet everywhere around me
Your presence could be found.
Your flakes fell oh so gently
So soft, so cold, so clean.
And carpeted the ground below
With beauty so serene.
Each flake unique and different
Floating through the air.
I reached out and I touched you.
So glad that you were there.
I watched you as you painted
A canopy of white
On rooftops and on window sills
On everything in sight.
That was the first time I saw you.
And ever since that night
I wait for your return each year.
With pure childlike delight.
| Scheme | X X XABA BCXC XDED XFXF EFXF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011 11011 1101110 110101 110011 110111 1111110 111111 01000101 110101 11010100 10101 1110111 111101 1111110 010011 1101101 11001 11011111 010111 11110111 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 572 |
| Words | 113 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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