Analysis of The Place Where The Berries Grow
The rising sun beckons us along a sand-dune trail
For we are going berryin', I and my little blue pail.
I hum as I pick my way along a path that I well know,
that leads to the hills of purple and blue....
the place where the berries grow.
I zig-zag through a stand of pine; their needles cloak the ground
where foot-fall, tip-toe soft, is free of sound.
hiding in the shadows the nosey, noisy crow
says he knows I'm on my way...
to the place where the berries grow.
Beyond the woods the purple hills rise to meet the sky,
and grey gulls circle overhead while a small snake wriggles by.
From the top I look around; there, far below,
is the ocean too, all purple and blue....
like the place where the berries grow.
As berries fill my pail I dream of banquets for a queen;
hot biscuits and clover honey, wild blueb'ries and cream.
All too soon, my pail replete, shows me it's time to go,
so I bid goodbye to the blue hills and sky....
and the place where the berries grow.
Scheme | AABCB DDBXB EEBCB XXBEB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101010111 1111011011011 111111101011111 1110111001 0110101 11110111110101 1111111111 1000101101 1111111 10110101 0101010111101 01110101101111 10111011101 1010111001 10110101 11011111110101 110010101101 1111101111111 1111101101 00110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 950 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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