Analysis of Easter Week



See the land, her Easter keeping,
Rises as her Maker rose.
Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,
Burst at last from winter snows.
Earth with heaven above rejoices;
Fields and gardens hail the spring;
Shaughs and woodlands ring with voices,
While the wild birds build and sing.

You, to whom your Maker granted
Powers to those sweet birds unknown,
Use the craft by God implanted;
Use the reason not your own.
Here, while heaven and earth rejoices,
Each his Easter tribute bring-
Work of fingers, chant of voices,
Like the birds who build and sing.


Scheme ABABBACA XDXDBACA
Poetic Form
Metre 10101010 1010101 11101010 1111101 1110011 1010101 1011110 1011101 11111010 10111101 10111010 1010111 1110011 1110101 11101110 1011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 552
Words 97
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 215
Words per stanza (avg) 48
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Charles Kingsley

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