Analysis of April
John Crowe Ransom 1888 (Pulaski) – 1974 (Gambier)
SAVOR of love is thick on the April air,
The blunted boughs dispose their lacy bloom,
And many sorry steeds dismissed to pasture
Toss their old forelocks, flourish heavy heels.
Where is there any unpersuaded poet
So angry still against the wrongs of winter
Which caused the dainty earth to droop and die,
So vengeant for his vine and summer song,
As to decline the good releasing thaw?
Poets have temperature and follow seasons,
And covenants go out at equinox.
The champions! For Heaven, riding high
Above the icy death, considered truly;
'My agate icy work, I thought it fair;
Yet I have lacked that pretty lift of praise
That mounted once from these emaciate minstrels.
They will not sing, and duty drops away
And I must turn and make a soft amend!'
At once he showered April down, until
The bleak twigs bloom again; and soon, I swear,
He shall receive his praise.
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Metre | 10111110101 0101011101 01010101110 111110101 11110110 11010101110 1101011101 111110101 1101010101 10110001010 010011110 0100110101 01010101010 1101011111 1111110111 11011101010 1111010101 0111010101 1111010101 0111010111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 856 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 10 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 345 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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