Analysis of Flower O' The Year
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
The laggard year is now at prime
And primrose-time is daffodil-time;
Where do the boys delay? What tether
Hinders them from the heavenly weather,
From violet-time and cowslip-time?
Why do they keep the house so late?
The sweet o' the year is at the gate,
And hear the cuckoo calling, saying:
Up, slug-a-bed! 'Tis time for Maying!
The cuckoo calling early and late.
They have stolen away before the dawn,
No print in the May-dew on the lawn
Betrays the way their light feet taking
Set not the quaking grass to shaking,
Running so light-foot in the dawn.
The primrose and the daffodil weather
Is here, and cowslips troop together;
The lambs frolic in pastures gold,
But since they come not it is cold.
Cold the primrose and daffodil weather.
Scheme | AABBA CCDDC EEDDE BBFFB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01011111 0111101 110101110 1011010010 110010101 11110111 011011101 01011010 11011111 01101001 1110010101 110011101 010111110 110101110 10111001 01001010 11011010 01100101 11111111 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 728 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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