Analysis of Judith
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
O her eyes are amber-fine--
Dark and deep as wells of wine,
While her smile is like the noon
Splendor of a day of June.
If she sorrow--lo! her face
It is like a flowery space
In bright meadows, overlaid
With light clouds and lulled with shade
If she laugh--it is the trill
Of the wayward whippoorwill
Over upland pastures, heard
Echoed by the mocking-bird
In dim thickets dense with bloom
And blurred cloyings of perfume.
If she sigh--a zephyr swells
Over odorous asphodels
And wan lilies in lush plots
Of moon-drown'd forget-me-nots.
Then, the soft touch of her hand--
Takes all breath to understand
What to liken it thereto!--
Never roseleaf rinsed with dew
Might slip soother-suave than slips
Her slow palm, the while her lips
Swoon through mine, with kiss on kiss
Sweet as heated honey is.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHCIIJJDKLLMN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101 1011111 1011101 1010111 1110101 11101001 01110 1110111 1111101 10101 1010101 1010101 0110111 011101 1110101 101001 0110011 1110111 1011101 111101 111011 101111 111111 0110101 1111111 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 776 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 624 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 139 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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