Analysis of Berkshires in April
Clement Wood 1888 ( Alabama ) – 1950 (USA)
It is not Spring -- not yet --
But at East Schaghticoke I saw an ivory birch
Lifting a filmy red mantle of knotted buds
Above the rain-washed whiteness of her arms.
It is not Spring -- not yet --
But at Hoosick Falls I saw a robin strutting,
Thin, still, and fidgety,
Not like the puffed, complacent ball of feathers
That dawdles over the cidery Autumn loam.
It is not Spring -- not yet --
But up the stocky Pownal hills
Some springy shrub, a scarlet gash on the grayness,
Climbs, flaming, over the melting snows.
It is not Spring -- not yet --
But at Williamstown the willows are young and golden,
Their tall tips flinging the sun's rays back at him;
And as the sun drags over the Berkshire crests,
The willows glow, the scarlet bushes burn,
The high hill birches shine like purple plumes,
A royal headdress for the brow of Spring.
It is the doubtful, unquiet end of Winter,
And Spring is pulsing out of the wakening soil.
Scheme | Axbx Acaxx Axbx Axxxxxcxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 11111111001 10011101101 0101110101 111111 11111101010 1101 11010101110 111001101 111111 1101011 1110101101 110100101 111111 11100111010 11110011111 01011100101 011010101 011111101 010110111 1101011110 0111011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 931 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 9 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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