Analysis of Spring
Nothing is so beautiful as spring --
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.
What is all this juice and all this joy?
A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning
In Eden garden. -- Have, get, before it cloy,
Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CACACA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110011 11011101001 1111011001 101001011101 01111101111 010110111 001011111001 110010111111 111110111 0110111000010 01010110111 011111010110 10010100101 111111010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 704 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 270 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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