Analysis of Reach Your Hand To Me
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
Reach your hand to me, my friend,
With its heartiest caress--
Sometime there will come an end
To its present faithfulness--
Sometime I may ask in vain
For the touch of it again,
When between us land or sea
Holds it ever back from me.
Sometime I may need it so,
Groping somewhere in the night,
It will seem to me as though
Just a touch, however light,
Would make all the darkness day,
And along some sunny way
Lead me through an April-shower
Of my tears to this fair hour.
O the present is too sweet
To go on forever thus!
Round the corner of the street
Who can say what waits for us?--
Meeting--greeting, night and day,
Faring each the self-same way--
Still somewhere the path must end.--
Reach your hand to me, my friend!
Scheme | Ababxxcc dedeffgg hihiffaA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 1110001 111111 11101 111101 1011101 1011111 1110111 111111 101001 1111111 101101 1110101 0011101 11111010 11111110 1010111 1110101 1010101 1111111 1010101 1010111 110111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 707 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 185 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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