Analysis of An April Adoration



Sang the sun rise on an amber morn -
'Earth, be glad! An April day is born.

'Winter's done, and April's in the skies,
Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!'

Putting off her dumb dismay of snow,
Earth bade all her unseen children grow.

Then the sound of growing in the air
Rose to God a liturgy of prayer;

And the thronged succession of the days
Uttered up to God a psalm of praise.

Laughed the running sap in every vein,
Laughed the running flurries of warm rain,

Laughed the life in every wandering root,
Laughed the tingling cells of bud and shoot.

God in all the concord of their mirth
Heard the adoration-song of Earth.


Scheme AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 101111101 111110111 101010001 111110011 101010111 111001101 101110001 111010011 001010101 101110111 1010101001 101010111 10101001001 1010011101 10101111 10010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 621
Words 121
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 61
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 22, 2023

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Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (January 10, 1860 – November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. He was one of the first Canadian authors to be internationally known. more…

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