Analysis of When The Poet Came
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
The ferny places gleam at morn,
The dew drips off the leaves of corn;
Along the brook a mist of white
Fades as a kiss on lips of light;
For, lo! the poet with his pipe
Finds all these melodies are ripe!
Far up within the cadenced June
Floats, silver-winged, a living tune
That winds within the morning's chime
And sets the earth and sky to rhyme;
For, lo! the poet, absent long,
Breathes the first raptures of his song!
Across the clover-blossoms, wet,
With dainty clumps of violet,
And wild red roses in her hair,
There comes a little maiden fair.
I cannot more of June rehearse--
She is the ending of my verse.
Ah, nay! For through perpetual days
Of summer gold and filmy haze,
When Autumn dies in Winter's sleet,
I yet will see those dew-washed feet,
And o'er the tracts of Life and Time
They make the cadence for my rhyme.
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFF XXGGHH IIJJEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110111 01110111 01010111 11011111 11010111 11110011 1101011 11010101 11010101 01010111 11010101 1011111 01010101 11011100 01110001 11010101 11011101 11010111 111101001 1101011 11010101 11111111 010011101 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 811 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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