Analysis of Books and Seasons
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
Because the sky is blue; because blithe May
Masks in the wren's note and the lilac's hue;
Because -- in fine, because the sky is blue
I will read none but piteous tales to-day.
Keep happy laughter till the skies be gray,
And the sad season cypress wears, and rue;
Then, when the wind is moaning in the flue,
And ways are dark, bid Chaucer make us gay.
But now a little sadness! All too sweet
This springtide riot, this most poignant air,
This sensuous world of color and perfume.
So listen, love, while I the woes repeat
Of Hamlet and Ophelia, and that pair
Whose bridal bed was builded in a tomb.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110111 100110011 0101010111 111111111 1101010111 0011010101 1101110001 0111110111 1101010111 111011101 11001110001 1101110101 1100010011 110111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 461 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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