Analysis of Earth Day
Jane Yolen 1939
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
Each blade of grass,
Each honey tree,
Each bit of mud,
And stick and stone
Is blood and muscle,
Skin and bone.
And just as I
Need every bit
Of me to make
My body fit,
So Earth needs
Grass and stone and tree
And things that grow here
Naturally.
That’s why we
Celebrate this day.
That’s why across
The world we say:
As long as life,
As dear, as free,
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
| Scheme | ABxbxcxc xdxdxbxb bexexbAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 00111 1111 1101 1111 0101 11010 101 0111 11001 1111 1101 111 10101 01111 1000 111 1011 1101 0111 1111 1111 1101 00111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 430 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Written on 1995
Submitted by Drone232 on April 22, 2022
Modified on April 29, 2023
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