Analysis of In May
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
Oh to have you in May,
To talk with you under the trees,
Dreaming throughout the day,
Drinking the wine-like breeze,
Oh it were sweet to think
That May should be ours again,
Hoping it not, I shrink,
Out of the sight of men.
May brings the flowers to bloom,
It brings the green leaves to the tree,
And the fatally sweet perfume,
Of what you once were to me.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 111101 11111001 100101 100111 110111 11111001 101111 110111 1101011 11011101 00100101 1111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 353 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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