Analysis of July
John Le Gay Brereton 1871 (Sydney) – 1933
'Twas Jack-o'-Winter hailed it first,
But now more timid angels sing,
For what dull ear can fail to hear
Afar the fluting of the Spring?
In all free spaces of the land
A sightless flame is flickering;
Through every vein it leaps amain,
The fiery miracle of Spring.
A music ranging in the air,
A lambent light in everything;
O sweet, my sweet, the subtle heat,
The dancing light of Love and Spring!
Scheme | XAXA XAXA XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110111 11110101 11111111 0101101 01110101 0111100 11001111 010010011 01010001 011010 11110101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 394 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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