Analysis of The Blossoms On The Trees

James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)



Blossoms crimson, white, or blue,
Purple, pink, and every hue,
From sunny skies, to tintings drowned
In dusky drops of dew,
I praise you all, wherever found,
And love you through and through--;
But, Blossoms On The Trees,
With your breath upon the breeze
There's nothing all the world around
As half as sweet as you!

Could the rhymer only wring
All the sweetness to the lees
Of all the kisses clustering
In juicy Used-to-bes,
To dip his rhymes therein and sing
The blossoms on the trees--,
'O Blossoms on the Trees,'
He would twitter, trill, and coo,
'However sweet, such songs as these
Are not as sweet as you--:
For you are blooming melodies
The eyes may listen to!'


Scheme AABABACCBA DCDCDCCACACA
Poetic Form
Metre 1010111 10101001 1101111 01111 11110101 011101 110101 1110101 11010101 111111 1010101 1010101 11010100 010111 11110101 010101 110101 1110101 1011111 111111 11110100 011101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 655
Words 124
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 10, 12
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 257
Words per stanza (avg) 60
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. more…

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