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?


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFF GGHH
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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Ellis Parker Butler

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