Analysis of Spring Morning
Alan Alexander Milne 1882 – 1956
Where am I going? I don't quite know.
Down to the stream where the king-cups grow-
Up on the hill where the pine-trees blow-
Anywhere, anywhere. I don't know.
Where am I going? The clouds sail by,
Little ones, baby ones, over the sky.
Where am I going? The shadows pass,
Little ones, baby ones, over the grass.
If you were a cloud, and sailed up there,
You'd sail on water as blue as air,
And you'd see me here in the fields and say:
'Doesn't the sky look green today?'
Where am I going? The high rooks call:
'It's awful fun to be born at all.'
Where am I going? The ring-doves coo:
'We do have beautiful things to do.'
If you were a bird, and lived on high,
You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by,
You'd say to the wind when it took you away:
'That's where I wanted to go today!'
Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter where people go?
Down to the wood where the blue-bells grow-
Anywhere, anywhere. I don't know.
Scheme | AaaA bbcc ddee ffgg bbee AaaA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111101111 110110111 110110111 1010111 111100111 1011011001 11110011 1011011001 110010111 111101111 0111100101 10011101 111100111 110111111 111100111 111100111 110010111 1110110111 11101111101 111101101 111101111 111101101 110110111 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 924 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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