Analysis of May
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
I cannot tell you how it was,
But this I know: it came to pass
Upon a bright and sunny day
When May was young; ah, pleasant May!
As yet the poppies were not born
Between the blades of tender corn;
The last egg had not hatched as yet,
Nor any bird foregone its mate.
I cannot tell you what it was,
But this I know: it did but pass.
It passed away with sunny May,
Like all sweet things it passed away,
And left me old, and cold, and gray.
Scheme | ABCCDDXX ABCCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 11111111 01010101 11111101 11010011 01011101 01111111 11011111 11011111 11111111 11011101 11111101 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 432 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 5 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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