Analysis of Too soon so fair, fair lilies
Augusta Davies Webster 1837 (Poole, Dorset) – 1894
TOO soon so fair, fair lilies;
To bloom is then to wane;
The folded bud has still
To-morrow at its will;
Blown flowers can never blow again.
Too soon so bright, bright noontide;
The sun that now is high
Will henceforth only sink
Towards the western brink;
Day that's at prime begins to die.
Too soon so rich, ripe summer,
For autumn tracks thee fast;
Lo, death-marks on the leaf!
Sweet summer, and my grief;
For summer come is summer past.
Too soon, too soon, lost summer;
Some hours and thou art o'er.
Ah! death is part of birth:
Summer leaves not the earth,
But last year's summer lives no more.
Scheme | XXAAX BXCCB DBEEB DDFFX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) |
Metre | 1111110 111111 010111 110111 110110101 111111 011111 111101 010101 11110111 1111110 110111 111101 110011 11011101 1111110 11001110 111111 101101 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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