Analysis of How Fast The Year Is Going By
Richard Le Gallienne 1866 (Liverpool) – 1947
How fast the year is going by!
Love, it will be September soon;
O let us make the best of June.
Already, love, it is July;
The rose and honeysuckle go,
And all too soon will come the snow.
Dark berries take the place of flowers,
Of summer August still remains,
Then sad September with her rains.
O love, how short a year is ours-
So swiftly does the summer fly,
Scarce time is left to say goodbye.
| Scheme | ABBACC DEEDAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101 11110101 11110111 0101111 0101001 01111101 110101110 11010101 11010101 111101110 11010101 1111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 394 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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