Analysis of May and the Poets
James Henry Leigh Hunt 1784 (Southgate, London) – 1859
There is May in books forever;
May will part from Spenser never;
May's in Milton, May's in Prior,
May's in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyer;
May's in all the Italian books:--
She has old and modern nooks,
Where she sleeps with nymphs and elves,
In happy places they call shelves,
And will rise and dress your rooms
With a drapery thick with blooms.
Come, ye rains, then if ye will,
May's at home, and with me still;
But come rather, thou, good weather,
And find us in the fields together.
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Metre | 11101010 11111010 10101010 10101010 10100101 1110101 1111101 01010111 0110111 10100111 1111111 1110111 11101110 011001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 486 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 363 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 88 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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