Analysis of A Spring Song And A Later
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
She sang a song of May for me,
Wherein once more I heard
The mirth of my glad infancy--
The orchard's earliest bird--
The joyous breeze among the trees
New-clad in leaf and bloom,
And there the happy honey-bees
In dewy gleam and gloom.
So purely, sweetly on the sense
Of heart and spirit fell
Her song of Spring, its influence--
Still irresistible,--
Commands me here--with eyes ablur--
To mate her bright refrain.
Though I but shed a rhyme for her
As dim as Autumn rain.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 011111 01111100 011001 01010101 110101 01010101 010101 11010101 110101 01111100 10100 0111111 110101 11110110 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 464 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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