Analysis of April In September
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
WHAT song is in the sap of this brave oak-tree
That to the north-star faces,
Ravened each June by caterpillar masses
Till all its leaves are laces,
Poor shreds whose very shadow grieves the grasses?
I leave it then, but roses and the smoke-tree
Look from the lawn below it
And watch for that gold witch, Midsummer Weather,
With magic breath to blow it
Free of its foes, whose wings make mirth together.
Vital as Igdrasil, immortal folk-tree,
When I return, its losses
Are all restored, its fresh, soft foliage gleaming
With peach and citron glosses,
A Druid that is never done with dreaming.
Scheme | ABBBBACDCDABEFE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11100111111 1101110 111110010 1111110 1111011010 11111100011 1101011 01111111010 1101111 11111111010 101101011 1101110 11011111010 1101010 01011101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 585 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 469 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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