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 |
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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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