Analysis of Kissing time
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
'T is when the lark goes soaring
And the bee is at the bud,
When lightly dancing zephyrs
Sing over field and flood;
When all sweet things in nature
Seem joyfully achime -
'T is then I wake my darling,
For it is kissing time!
Go, pretty lark, a-soaring,
And suck your sweets, 0 bee;
Sing, 0 ye winds of summer,
Your songs to mine and me;
For with your song and rapture
Cometh the moment when
It's half-past kissing time
And time to kiss again!
So - so the days go fleeting
Like golden fancies free,
And every day that cometh
Is full of sweets for me;
And sweetest are those moments
My darling comes to climb
Into my lap to mind me
That it is kissing time.
Sometimes, maybe, he wanders
A heedless, aimless way -
Sometimes, maybe, he loiters
In pretty, prattling play;
But presently bethinks him
And hastens to me then,
For it's half-past kissing time
And time to kiss again!
Scheme | abcbdeae afdedgeG afxexeee chchegeG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110 0011101 1101010 110101 1111010 11001 11111110 111101 1101010 01111 111110 111101 1111010 100101 111101 011101 1101110 110101 01001110 111111 0101110 110111 0111111 111101 0110110 01101 011011 010101 110011 010111 1111101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 849 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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