Analysis of When The Green Gits Back In The Trees
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
In spring, when the green gits back in the trees,
And the sun comes out and stays,
And yer boots pulls on with a good tight squeeze,
And you think of yer barefoot days;
When you ort to work and you want to not,
And you and yer wife agrees
It's time to spade up the garden lot,
When the green gits back in the trees--
Well! work is the least o' _my_ idees
When the green, you know, gits back in the trees!
When the green gits back in the trees, and bees
Is a-buzzin' aroun' agin,
In that kind of a lazy go-as-you-please
Old gait they bum roun' in;
When the groun's all bald where the hay-rick stood,
And the crick 's riz, and the breeze
Coaxes the bloom in the old dogwood,
And the green gits back in the trees,--
I like, as I say, in sich scenes as these,
The time when the green gits back in the trees!
When the whole tail-feathers o' wintertime
Is all pulled out and gone!
And the sap it thaws and begins to climb,
And the sweat it starts out on
A feller's forred, a-gittin' down
At the old spring on his knees--
I kind o' like jes' a-loaferin' roun'
When the green gits back in the trees--
Jes' a-potterin' roun' as I--durn--please--
When the green, you know, gits back in the trees!
Scheme | ababcacAaA adaxeaeaaa fxfxxadAaA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 0110111001 0011101 0111110111 0111111 1111101111 0101101 111110101 10111001 11101111 1011111001 1011100101 101101 01110101111 111110 1011110111 00111001 10010011 00111001 1111101111 0110111001 101110110 111101 0011100111 0011111 011011 1011111 11111011 10111001 10111111 1011111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,165 |
Words | 236 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 295 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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