Analysis of Cycle

Langston Hughes 1902 (Joplin) – 1967 (New York City)



So many little flowers
Drop their tiny heads
But newer buds come to bloom
In their place instead.
I miss the little flowers
That have gone away.
But the newly budding blossoms
Are equally gay.


Scheme ABCDAEFE
Poetic Form
Metre 1101010 11101 1101111 01101 1101010 11101 10101010 11001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 186
Words 35
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 155
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted by Thao9393 on May 19, 2018

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue" which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue". more…

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