Analysis of The Clover
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
Some sings of the lily, and daisy, and rose,
And the pansies and pinks that the Summertime
throws
In the green grassy lap of the medder that lays
Blinkin' up at the skyes through the sunshiney days;
But what is the lily and all of the rest
Of the flowers, to a man with a hart in his brest
That was dipped brimmin' full of the honey and dew
Of the sweet clover-blossoms his babyhood knew?
I never set eyes on a clover-field now,
Er fool round a stable, er climb in the mow,
But my childhood comes back jest as clear and as plane
As the smell of the clover I'm sniffin' again;
And I wunder away in a bare-footed dream,
Whare I tangle my toes in the blossoms that gleam
With the dew of the dawn of the morning of love
Ere it wept ore the graves that I'm weepin' above.
And so I love clover--it seems like a part
Of the sacerdest sorrows and joys of my hart;
And wharever it blossoms, oh, thare let me bow
And thank the good God as I'm thankin' Him now;
And I pray to Him still fer the stren'th when I die,
To go out in the clover and tell it good-bye,
And lovin'ly nestle my face in its bloom
While my soul slips away on a breth of purfume
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101001001 0010011010 1 00110110111 111011011 11101001101 1010101101011 11111101001 10110101101 11011101011 01101001001 11111111011 10110101101 011001001101 111011001011 101101101011 11110111101 01111011101 1011001111 0111011111 0101111111 011111101111 111001001111 01011011011 11110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,121 |
Words | 232 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 8 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 437 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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