Analysis of To My Class: On Certain Fruits And Flowers Sent Me In Sickness
Sidney Lanier 1842 (Macon) – 1881 (Lynn)
If spicy-fringed pinks that blush and pale
With passions of perfume, -- if violets blue
That hint of heaven with odor more than hue, --
If perfect roses, each a holy Grail
Wherefrom the blood of beauty doth exhale
Grave raptures round, -- if leaves of green as new
As those fresh chaplets wove in dawn and dew
By Emily when down the Athenian vale
She paced, to do observance to the May,
Nor dreamed of Arcite nor of Palamon, --
If fruits that riped in some more riotous play
Of wind and beam that stirs our temperate sun, --
If these the products be of love and pain,
Oft may I suffer, and you love, again.
| Scheme | ABBAABBACDCDDD |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111101 11010111001 11110110111 1011010101 101110101 111111111 111110101 110011001001 1111010101 1111111 11110111001 11011110101 1101011101 1111001101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 611 |
| Words | 119 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 467 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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