Analysis of A Calendar of Sonnets: March
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)
Month which the warring ancients strangely styled
The month of war,--as if in their fierce ways
Were any month of peace!--in thy rough days
I find no war in Nature, though the wild
Winds clash and clang, and broken boughs are piled
As feet of writhing trees. The violets raise
Their heads without affright, without amaze,
And sleep through all the din, as sleeps a child.
And he who watches well may well discern
Sweet expectation in each living thing.
Like pregnant mother the sweet earth doth yearn;
In secret joy makes ready for the spring;
And hidden, sacred, in her breast doth bear
Annunciation lilies for the year.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 0111110111 0101110111 1111010101 1101010111 11110101001 110110101 0111011101 0111011101 101001101 1101001111 0101110101 0101000111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 494 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 18, 2023
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