Analysis of A Calendar of Sonnets: May
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)
O Month when they who love must love and wed!
Were one to go to worlds where May is naught,
And seek to tell the memories he had brought
From earth of thee, what were most fitly said?
I know not if the rosy showers shed
From apple-boughs, or if the soft green wrought
In fields, or if the robin's call be fraught
The most with thy delight. Perhaps they read
Thee best who in the ancient time did say
Thou wert the sacred month unto the old:
No blossom blooms upon thy brightest day
So subtly sweet as memories which unfold
In aged hearts which in thy sunshine lie,
To sun themselves once more before they die.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 0111111111 01110100111 111110111 1111010101 1101110111 0111010111 0111010111 1110010111 1101011001 1101011101 110011100101 01110111 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 617 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 480 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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