Analysis of Blooms Of May
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
But yesterday!...
O blooms of May,
And summer roses--Where-away?
O stars above,
And lips of love
And all the honeyed sweets thereof!
O lad and lass
And orchard-pass,
And briered lane, and daisied grass!
O gleam and gloom,
And woodland bloom,
And breezy breaths of all perfume!--
No more for me
Or mine shall be
Thy raptures--save in memory,--
No more--no more--
Till through the Door
Of Glory gleam the days of yore.
| Scheme | AAABBB CCCDDD EEEFFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110 1111 01010101 1101 0111 010111 1101 0101 011011 1101 011 01011101 1111 1111 1110100 1111 1101 11010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 407 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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