Analysis of Easter Week
Charles Kingsley 1819 – 1875
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 |
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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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