Analysis of June
Francis Ledwidge 1887 (Slane) – 1917 (Boezinge)
Broom out the floor now, lay the fender by,
And plant this bee-sucked bough of woodbine there,
And let the window down. The butterfly
Floats in upon the sunbeam, and the fair
Tanned face of June, the nomad gipsy, laughs
Above her widespread wares, the while she tells
The farmers' fortunes in the fields, and quaffs
The water from the spider-peopled wells.
The hedges are all drowned in green grass seas,
And bobbing poppies flare like Elmo's light,
While siren-like the pollen-staind bees
Drone in the clover depths. And up the height
The cuckoo's voice is hoarse and broke with joy.
And on the lowland crops the crows make raid,
Nor fear the clappers of the farmer's boy,
Who sleeps, like drunken Noah, in the shad
And loop this red rose in that hazel ring
That snares your little ear, for June is short
And we must joy in it and dance and sing,
And from her bounty draw her rosy worth.
Ay! soon the swallows will be flying south,
The wind wheel north to gather in the snow,
Even the roses spilt on youth's red mouth
Will soon blow down the road all roses go.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGHGIJKJLMNMN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 011111111 010101010 100101001 11110111 0101110111 0101000101 0101010101 0101110111 010101111 110101011 1001010101 0101110111 010110111 110110101 1111010001 0111101101 1111011111 0111010101 0101010101 1101011101 0111110001 1001011111 1111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,056 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 832 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 196 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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