Analysis of Hymn to the Dairymaids on Beacon Street
Christopher Morley 1890 (Haverford) – 1957
Sweetly solemn see them stand,
Spinning churns on either hand,
Neatly capped and aproned white
Airy fairy dairy sight.
Jersey priestesses they seem
Miracling milk to cream.
Cream solidifies to cheese
By Pasteural mysteries,
And they give, within their shrine,
Their communión in kine.
Incantations pure they mutter
O'er the golden minted butter
And (no layman hand can pen it)
See them gloat above their rennet.
By that hillside window pane
Rugged teamsters draw the rein.
Doff the battered hat and bow
To these acolytes of cow.
Genuflect, ye passersby!
Muse upon their ritual high-
Milk to cream, yea, cream to cheese
White lacteal mysteries!
Let adorers sing the word
Of the smoothly flowing curd.
Yea, we sing with bells and fife
This is the whey, this is the Life.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJKLDDMMNN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 1011101 101011 1010101 10111 1111 101011 11100 0110111 11101 11110 100101010 01101111 11101110 111101 1010101 1010101 111011 11100 10111001 1111111 11100 11101 1010101 1111101 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 777 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 614 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 130 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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