Analysis of The Daughter Of The Year
Ellis Parker Butler 1869 (Muscatine) – 1937 (Williamsville)
Nature, when she made thee, dear,
Begged the treasures of the year.
For thy cheeks, all pink and white,
Spring gave apple blossoms light;
Summer, for thy matchless eyes,
Gave the azure of her skies;
Autumn spun her gold and red
In a mass of silken thread—
Gold and red and sunlight rare
For the wonder of thy hair!
Surly Winter would impart
But his coldness, for thy heart.
Dearest, let the love I bring
Turn thy Winter into Spring.
What are Summer, Spring and Fall,
If thy Winter chills them all?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011111 1010101 1111101 1110101 101111 1010101 1010101 0011101 101011 1010111 1010101 1110111 1010111 1110011 1110101 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 492 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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