Analysis of When Summer Comes In Her Glory

Christopher John Brennan 1870 (Haymarket, New South Wales) – 1932 (Lewisham, New South Wales)



When summer comes in her glory and brave the whole earth blows,
when colours burn and perfumes impassion the gladden'd air
then methinks thy laughter seeks me on every breeze that goes
and I feel thy breathing warmth about me everywhere.
Or in the dreamy eve, when our soul is spread in the skies,
when Life for an hour is hush'd, and the gaze is wide to behold
what day may not show nor night, then sure it were no surprise
to find thee beside me sitting, the pitying eyes of old.
But ah, when the winter rains drive hard on the blacken'd pane
and the grief of the lonely wind is lost in the waste outside,
when the room is high and chill and I seek my place in vain,
I know that seas splash cold in the night and the world is wide.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEF
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Metre 11010010010111 111001010011 11110111100111 011110101110 100101110111001 1111101100111101 11111111110101 111011100100111 11101011110101 001101011100111 10111010111101 11111100100111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 741
Words 147
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 48
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 574
Words per stanza (avg) 145
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Christopher John Brennan

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