Analysis of If Amy Lowell Had Been James Whitcomb Riley
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
When you came you were like red wine and honey,
And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
Now you are like morning bread--
Smooth and pleasant,
I hardly taste you at all, for I know your savour,
But I am completely nourished.
--AMY LOWELL, in The Chimæra.
When I wuz courtin' Annie, she wuz honey an' red wine,
She made me feel all jumpy, did that ol' sweetheart o' mine;
Wunst w'en I went to Crawfordsville, on one o' them there trips,
I kissed her--an' the burnin' taste wuz sizzlin' on my lips.
An' now I've married Annie, an' I see her all the time,
I do not feel the daily need o' bustin' into rhyme.
An' now the wine-y taste is gone, fer Annie's always there,
An' I take her fer granted now, the same ez sun an' air.
But though the honey taste wuz sweet, an' though the wine wuz strong,
Yet ef I lost the sun an' air, I couldn't git along.
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Metre | 11110111010 001111111110 1111101 1010 110111111111 11101010 10100011 1111101110111 1111110111111 1100111110111111 1101011110111 11110101110101 11110101110011 110111111111 11101101011111 11010111110111 11110111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 867 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 1, 10 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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