Analysis of A Calendar of Sonnets: June

Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)



O month whose promise and fulfilment blend,
And burst in one! it seems the earth can store
In all her roomy house no treasure more;
Of all her wealth no farthing have to spend
On fruit, when once this stintless flowering end.
And yet no tiniest flower shall fall before
It hath made ready at its hidden core
Its tithe of seed, which we may count and tend
Till harvest. Joy of blossomed love, for thee
Seems it no fairer thing can yet have birth?
No room is left for deeper ecstacy?
Watch well if seeds grow strong, to scatter free
Germs for thy future summers on the earth.
A joy which is but joy soon comes to dearth.


Scheme ABBAABBACDECDD
Poetic Form
Metre 11110011 0101110111 0101011101 1101110111 1111111001 011100101101 1111011101 1111111101 1101110111 1111011111 11111101 1111111101 1111010101 0111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 626
Words 121
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 487
Words per stanza (avg) 119
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 04, 2023

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Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske, was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. more…

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