Analysis of The Cherry Tree



Come from your bed my drowsy gentleman!
  And you, fair lady, rise and braid your hair,
And let the children wash, if wash they can;
  If not, assist you them, and make them fair
As is the morning and the morning sky,
  And every tree and bush and bird in air.

The sun climbed on the heights three hours ago,
  He laughed above the hills and they were glad;
With bubbled pearl he made the rivers flow
  And laced their mists in silver, and he clad
The meads in fragrant pomp of green and gold,
  And bade the world forget it had been sad.

So lift yourself, good sir! and you, sweet dame,
  Unlash your evening eyes of pious grey;
Call on the children by each loved name,
  And set them on the grass and let them play;
And play with them a while, and sing with them
  Beneath the cherry bush a roundelay.


Scheme XAXAXA BCBCXC DEDEXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110100 0111010111 0101011111 1101110111 1101000101 01001010101 01110111001 1101010101 1101110101 0111010011 0101011101 0101011111 1101110111 111011101 110101111 0111010111 0111010111 01010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 794
Words 156
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 203
Words per stanza (avg) 51
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 25, 2023

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James Stephens

James Stephens was an Irish Republican and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin on 17 March 1858, later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, also referred to as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood by contemporaries. more…

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