Analysis of A Holiday
Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935
Along the pastoral ways I go,
To get the healing of the trees,
The ghostly news the hedges know;
To hive me honey like the bees,
Against the time of snow.
The common hawthorn that I see,
Beside the sunken wall astir,
Or any other blossoming tree,
Is each God’s fair white gospeller,
His book upon the knee.
A gust-broken bough; a pilfered nest;
Rumors of orchard or of bin;
The thrifty things of east and west,—
The countryside becomes my Inn,
And I its happy guest.
Scheme | ABABA CDCDC EFEFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010100111 11010101 01010101 11110101 010111 0101111 0101011 110101001 111111 110101 011010101 10110111 01011101 0100111 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 464 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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