Analysis of In Due Season
John McCrae 1872 (Guelph) – 1918 (Boulogne-sur-Mer)
If night should come and find me at my toil,
When all Life's day I had, tho' faintly, wrought,
And shallow furrows, cleft in stony soil
Were all my labour: Shall I count it naught
If only one poor gleaner, weak of hand,
Shall pick a scanty sheaf where I have sown?
"Nay, for of thee the Master doth demand
Thy work: the harvest rests with Him alone."
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111011111 1111111101 010110101 011111111 110111111 1101011111 1111010101 1101011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 357 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 25, 2023
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