Analysis of There Is But One May In The Year,
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
There is but one May in the year,
And sometimes May is wet and cold;
There is but one May in the year
Before the year grows old.
Yet though it be the chilliest May,
With least of sun and most of showers,
Its wind and dew, its night and day,
Bring up the flowers.
| Scheme | AbAbcdcd |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111001 00111101 11111001 010111 111101001 111101110 11011101 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 270 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 200 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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