Analysis of Honey Dripping From The Comb
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
How slight a thing may set one's fancy drifting
Upon the dead sea of the Past!--A view--
Sometimes an odor--or a rooster lifting
A far-off 'OOH! OOH-OOH!'
And suddenly we find ourselves astray
In some wood's-pasture of the Long Ago--
Or idly dream again upon a day
Of rest we used to know.
I bit an apple but a moment since--
A wilted apple that the worm had spurned,--
Yet hidden in the taste were happy hints
Of good old days returned.--
And so my heart, like some enraptured lute,
Tinkles a tune so tender and complete,
God's blessing must be resting on the fruit--
So bitter, yet so sweet!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011111010 0101110101 01110101010 011111 01001100101 0111010101 1101010101 111111 1111010101 0101010111 1100010101 111101 0111110101 101110001 1101110101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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