Analysis of Why I Wake Early
Mary Oliver 1935 (Maple Heights, OH) – 2019 (Hobe Sound, FL)
Why I Wake Early
Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who make the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and crotchety–
best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light–
good morning, good morning, good morning.
Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.
Scheme | A XBXXXXA XXXCBXB XC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 011011 01111010 0111001 0010101010 00101010 0010101100 10000100 1101101 111110 111110010 11111010 1111110 111001111 110110110 1111101 0100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 532 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 7, 7, 2 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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