Analysis of Cherry-Time
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
Cherries of the night are riper
Than the cherries pluckt at noon
Gather to your fairy piper
When he pipes his magic tune:
Merry, merry,
Take a cherry;
Mine are sounder,
Mine are rounder,
Mine are sweeter
For the eater
Under the moon.
And you’ll be fairies soon.
In the cherry pluckt at night,
With the dew of summer swelling,
There’s a juice of pure delight,
Cool, dark, sweet, divinely smelling.
Merry, merry,
Take a cherry;
Mine are sounder,
Mine are rounder,
Mine are sweeter
For the eater
In the moonlight.
And you’ll be fairies quite.
When I sound the fairy call,
Gather here in silent meeting,
Chin to knee on the orchard wall,
Cooled with dew and cherries eating.
Merry, merry,
Take a cherry;
Mine are sounder,
Mine are rounder,
Mine are sweeter.
For the eater
When the dews fall.
And you’ll be fairies all.
Scheme | ababAAAAAAbb cdcdAAAAAAcc ededAAAAAAee |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 1010111 10111010 1111101 1010 1010 1110 1110 1110 1010 1001 011101 0010111 10111010 1011101 11101010 1010 1010 1110 1110 1110 1010 001 011101 1110101 10101010 11110101 11101010 1010 1010 1110 1110 1110 1010 1011 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,163 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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