Analysis of Days Too Short
William Henry Davies 1871 – 1940
When primroses are out in Spring,
And small, blue violets come between;
When merry birds sing on boughs green,
And rills, as soon as born, must sing;
When butterflies will make side-leaps,
As though escaped from Nature's hand
Ere perfect quite; and bees will stand
Upon their heads in fragrant deeps;
When small clouds are so silvery white
Each seems a broken rimmed moon--
When such things are, this world too soon,
For me, doth wear the veil of night.
| Scheme | ABBA CDDC EFFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101101 011100101 11011111 01111111 1101111 11011101 10110111 01110101 111111001 1101011 11111111 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 461 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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