Analysis of Leaves
Gamaliel Bradford 1863 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1932
Down come the leaves,
Like fleeting years,
Or idle tears
Of love that grieves.
A tinkling trill,
A pallid flight
Like brief delight --
And all is still.
| Scheme | AXXA BCCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1101 1101 1101 1111 01001 0101 1101 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 153 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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