Analysis of Chicago Weather

Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)



To-day, fair Thisbe, winsome girl!
    Strays o'er the meads where daisies blow,
  Or, ling'ring where the brooklets purl,
    Laves in the cool, refreshing flow.
  To-morrow, Thisbe, with a host
    Of amorous suitors in her train,
  Comes like a goddess forth to coast
    Or skate upon the frozen main.
  To-day, sweet posies mark her track,
    While birds sing gayly in the trees;
  To-morrow morn, her sealskin sack
    Defies the piping polar breeze.
  So Doris is to-day enthused
    By Thisbe's soft, responsive sighs,
  And on the morrow is confused
    By Thisbe's cold, repellent eyes.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Metre 1111101 110011101 1111011 10010101 1101101 110010001 11010111 11010101 1111101 1111001 1101011 01010101 11011101 1110101 01010101 1110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 596
Words 94
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 430
Words per stanza (avg) 92
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Eugene Field

Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. more…

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