Analysis of May Day
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
A delicate fabric of bird song
Floats in the air,
The smell of wet wild earth
Is everywhere.
Red small leaves of the maple
Are clenched like a hand,
Like girls at their first communion
The pear trees stand.
Oh I must pass nothing by
Without loving it much,
The raindrop try with my lips,
The grass with my touch;
For how can I be sure
I shall see again
The world on the first of May
Shining after the rain?
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 010010111 1001 011111 110 1111010 11101 11111010 0111 1111101 011011 011111 01111 111111 11101 0110111 101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 399 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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