Analysis of On May

James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)



Among the changing months, May stands confest
The sweetest, and in fairest colours dressed!
Soft as the breeze that fans the smiling field;
Sweet as the breath that opening roses yield;
Fair as the colour lavish Nature paints
On virgin flowers free from unodorous taints! -
To rural scenes thou tempt'st the busy crowd,
Who, in each grove, thy praises sing aloud!
The blooming belles and shallow beaux, strange sight,
Turn nymphs and swains, and in their sports delight.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 469
Words 81
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 376
Words per stanza (avg) 79
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 2023

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James Thomson

James Thomson, who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night, an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment. more…

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