Analysis of Will You Come Along With Me?
James Clerk Maxwell 1831 (Edinburgh, Scotland) – 1879 (Cambridge, England)
Will you come along with me,
In the fresh spring-tide,
My comforter to be
Through the world so wide?
Will you come and learn the ways
A student spends his days,
On the bonny, bonny braes
Of our ain burnside?
For the lambs will soon be here,
In the fresh spring-tide;
As lambs come every year
On our ain burnside.
Poor things, they will not stay,
But we will keep the day
When first we saw them play
On our ain burnside.
We will watch the budding trees
In the fresh spring-tide,
While the murmurs of the breeze
Through the branches glide.
Where the mavis builds her nest,
And finds both work and rest,
In the bush she loves the best,
On our ain burnside.
And the life we then shall lead
In the fresh spring-tide,
Will make thee mine indeed,
Though the world be wide.
No stranger’s blame or praise
Shall turn us from the ways
That brought us happy days
On our ain burnside.
Scheme | aBabcccb xBxBdddB eBebfffB xBxbcccB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 00111 110011 10111 1110101 010111 1010101 11011 1011111 00111 1111001 11011 111111 111101 111111 11011 1110101 00111 1010101 10101 1010101 011101 0011101 11011 0011111 00111 111101 10111 110111 111101 111101 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 862 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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