Analysis of Valgovind's Song In The Spring

Laurence Hope 1865 ( Stoke Bishop, Gloucestershire) – 1904 ( Madras)



The Temple bells are ringing,
The young green corn is springing,
And the marriage month is drawing very near.

I lie hidden in the grass,
And I count the moments pass,
For the month of marriages is drawing near.

Soon, ah, soon, the women spread
The appointed bridal bed
With hibiscus buds and crimson marriage flowers,

Where, when all the songs are done,
And the dear dark night begun,
I shall hold her in my happy arms for hours.

She is young and very sweet,
From the silver on her feet
To the silver and the flowers in her hair,
And her beauty makes me swoon,
As the Moghra trees at noon
Intoxicate the hot and quivering air.

Ah, I would the hours were fleet
As her silver circled feet,
I am weary of the daytime and the night;
I am weary unto death,
Oh my rose with jasmin breath,
With this longing for your beauty and your light.


Scheme AAB CCB DDE FFE GGHIIH GGJKKJ
Poetic Form
Metre 0101110 0111110 00101110101 1110001 0110101 10111001101 1110101 0010101 1110101010 1110111 0011101 111001101110 1110101 1010101 10100010001 0010111 101111 0100101001 11101001 1010101 1110101001 1110101 1111101 11101110011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 817
Words 161
Sentences 6
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 6, 6
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 108
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Laurence Hope

Violet Nicolson (9 April 1865 – 4 October 1904; born as Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory)), was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope, however she became known as Violet Nicolson. In the late 1900s, she became best-selling author more…

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