Analysis of In May
William Henry Davies 1871 – 1940
Yes, I will spend the livelong day
With Nature in this month of May;
And sit beneath the trees, and share
My bread with birds whose homes are there;
While cows lie down to eat, and sheep
Stand to their necks in grass so deep;
While birds do sing with all their might,
As though they felt the earth in flight.
This is the hour I dreamed of, when
I sat surrounded by poor men;
And thought of how the Arab sat
Alone at evening, gazing at
The stars that bubbled in clear skies;
And of young dreamers, when their eyes
Enjoyed methought a precious boon
In the adventures of the Moon
Whose light, behind the Clouds' dark bars,
Searched for her stolen flocks of stars.
When I, hemmed in by wrecks of men,
Thought of some lonely cottage then
Full of sweet books; and miles of sea,
With passing ships, in front of me;
And having, on the other hand,
A flowery, green, bird-singing land.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFG GHHIIEEJJKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011 11001111 01010101 11111111 11111101 11110111 11111111 11110101 110101111 11010111 01110101 01110101 01110011 01110111 0110101 00010101 11010111 11010111 11101111 11110101 11110111 11010111 01010101 010011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 883 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 11 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 341 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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