Analysis of Now Spring Has Clad The Grove In Green
Robert Burns 1759 (Alloway) – 1796 (Dumfries)
Now spring has clad the grove in green,
And strew'd the lea wi' flowers;
The furrow'd, waving corn is seen
Rejoice in fostering showers:
While ilka thing in nature join
Their sorrows to forego,
O why thus all alone are mine
The weary steps of woe?
The trout in yonder wimpling burn
That glides, a silver dart,
And safe beneath the shady thorn
Defies the angler's art --
My life was ance that careless stream,
That wanton trout was I;
But love, wi' unrelenting beam,
Has scorch'd my fountains dry.
The little flow'ret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine; till love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom,
And now beneath the with'ring blast
My youth and joy consume.
The waken'd lav'rock warbling springs,
And climbs the early sky,
Winnowing blythe her dewy wings
In morning's rosy eye:
As little reckt I sorrow's power,
Until the flowery snare
O' witching love, in luckless hour,
Made me the thrall o' care.
O had my fate been Greenland snows,
Or Afric's burning zone,
Wi' man and nature leagu'd my foes,
So Peggy ne'er I'd known!
The wretch whase doom is, "hope nae mair,"
What tongue his woes can tell!
Within whase bosom, save despair,
Nae kinder spirits dwell.
Scheme | ABABXCXC XDXDEFEF XGDGHIHI JFJFKLKL GMGMLNLN |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 11110101 0101110 01010111 01010010 11010101 110101 11110111 010111 0101011 110101 01010101 01011 11111101 110111 1110101 111101 0101101 010111 1101111 110101 111111011 010011 01010111 110101 0111001 010101 1010101 010101 11011110 0101001 110101010 110111 11111101 11101 11010111 110111 01111111 111111 01110101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,317 |
Words | 225 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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