Analysis of Spring Song
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
ALL winter through I sat alone,
Doors barred and windows shuttered fast,
And listened to the wind's faint moan,
And ghostly mutterings of the past;
And in the pauses of the rain,
'Mid whispers of dead sorrow and sin,
Love tapped upon the window pane:
I had no heart to let him in.
But now, with spring, my doors stand wide;
My windows let delight creep through;
I hear the skylark sing outside;
I see the crocus, golden new.
The pigeons on my window-sill,
Winging and wooing, flirt and flout,--
Now Love must enter if he will,
I have no heart to keep him out.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 11011101 11010101 01010111 010100101 00010101 110111001 11010101 11111110 11111111 11010111 1101111 11010101 01011101 10010101 11110111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 567 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 215 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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