Analysis of First Rhymes
Edmund Blunden 1896 (London) – 1974 (Long Melford)
In the meadow by the mill
I'd make my ballad,
Tunes to that would whistle shrill
And beat the blackbird's ringing bill.—
But surely the innocent spring has died,
The sultry noon has hushed the bird,
The jingling word, the tune untried,
All in that meadow must have died.—
For that, the fuller speech of song
Has charmed me,
And lulled my lonely hours along;
Though beauty's truth that leads to-day
My longing trials
Shone then like dewdrops in my way,
When ' Nature painted all things gay.'
Scheme | ABAACDCCEFEGHGG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) |
Metre | 001101 11110 1111101 0101101 1100100111 01011101 0110101 1011111 11010111 111 011101001 1111111 11010 1111011 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 488 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 383 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 88 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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