Analysis of The Perfect Day
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
GOD made a day of blue and gold,
Sweet as a violet,
As merry as a marigold;
It may be shining yet
In some blest vale, some dreamy dell
Among the heavenly hills,
Where here and there the asphodel
Is flecked by daffodils
And gentians, flowers that twinkled on
The fields our childhood knew,
Too lovely for oblivion,
Fed with immortal dew.
That summer day, all murmurous
With laughters of old mirth,
How tenderly 'twould comfort us,
Still homesick for the earth;
With what dear touch 'twould fold us in,
As to a mother's knee,
From those strange spaces crystalline
Of vast eternity,
— A day God saw with smiling eyes,
The summer's coronet!
In His far cycles of surprise
It may be shining yet.
| Scheme | abaCdedefghgeijiklmlncnC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101 110100 1101010 111101 01111101 0101001 110101 11110 01101101 011011 11010100 110101 110111 11111 11001101 11101 11111110 110101 1111010 110100 01111101 010101 01110101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 676 |
| Words | 127 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 24 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 541 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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