Analysis of The Fall Of The Leaf
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon 1832 – 1879
Earnest and sad the solemn tale
That the sighing winds give back,
Scatt’ring the leaves with mournful wail
O’er the forest’s faded track;
Gay summer birds have left us now
For a warmer, brighter clime,
Where no leaden sky or leafless bough
Tell of change and winter-time.
Reapers have gathered golden store
Of maize and ripened grain,
And they’ll seek the lonely fields no more
Till the springtide comes again.
But around the homestead’s blazing hearth
Will they find sweet rest from toil,
And many an hour of harmless mirth
While the snow-storm piles the soil.
Then, why should we grieve for summer skies—
For its shady trees—its flowers,
Or the thousand light and pleasant ties
That endeared the sunny hours?
A few short months of snow and storm,
Of winter’s chilling reign,
And summer, with smiles and glances warm,
Will gladden our earth again.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEGXHXH IJIJDFDG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010101 1010111 1011101 1010101 11011111 1010101 111011101 1110101 1110101 110101 011010111 101101 10101101 1111111 0101101101 1011101 111111101 11101110 101010101 10101010 01111101 110101 010110101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 851 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 226 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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