Analysis of A Distant Spring

Charles Hanson Towne 1877 (Kentucky) – 1949 (New York City)

I who love the Spring so well
Shall be sleeping, some glad day,
When her hosts come back to dwell
In their old, familiar way.

I shall live, alas! no more
In some distant April hour,
When the Spring finds wide her door,
Calling leaf, and bloom, and flower.

I shall sleep--but I shall dream
In my home beneath the ground,
And my slumbering heart shall teem
With its visions deep, profound.

I shall know, ere you will guess
(Though with life I have no part),
What new golden loveliness
Stirs within the old earth's heart.

I shall hear the first soft sound
When the Spring is born anew,
And rejoice, beneath the ground,
At the bliss to come to you.

And the dreams that I shall dream,
In that Spring when I am dead,
May arise until they seem
Blossoms white and blossoms red!

Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH FIFI EJEJ
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1110111 1110111 1011111 0110101 1110111 01101010 1011101 10101010 1111111 0110101 01100111 1110101 1111111 1111111 11101 1010111 1110111 1011101 0010101 1011111 0011111 0111111 1010111 1010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 754
Words 147
Sentences 8
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 99
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Charles Hanson Towne

Born in 1877 in Kentucky, Charles Hanson Towne was probably as widely known for his New York urbanite lifestyle as his poetic works. he moved from Kentucky to New York where he would spend the majority of the remainder of his life. After a general education, Towne went to the City College in New York but lasted just a year before he decided to take an alternative direction. Offered the position of assistant editor on a magazine he finally found himself working on one of the most popular and avant garde publications of the time, The Smart Set. He worked on a number of other magazines including Harper’s Bazaar as well as New York American for whom he wrote humorous columns for several years. As time went on Towne became just as famous for his social life as he did for his work as either editor or poet. Towne died in 1949 at the age of 72. more…

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