Analysis of When June Is Here
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
When June is here--what art have we to sing
The whiteness of the lilies midst the green
Of noon-tranced lawns? Or flash of roses seen
Like redbirds' wings? Or earliest ripening
Prince-Harvest apples, where the cloyed bees cling
Round winey juices oozing down between
The peckings of the robin, while we lean
In under-grasses, lost in marveling.
Or the cool term of morning, and the stir
Of odorous breaths from wood and meadow walks,
The bobwhite's liquid yodel, and the whir
Of sudden flight; and, where the milkmaid talks
Across the bars, on tilted barley-stalks
The dewdrops' glint in webs of gossamer.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 0101010101 1111111101 1111100100 1101010111 1101010101 011010111 0101010100 1011110001 1100111011 011010001 110101011 0101110101 011011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 482 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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