Analysis of Spring
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Birds' love and birds' song
Flying here and there,
Birds' songand birds' love
And you with gold for hair!
Birds' songand birds' love
Passing with the weather,
Men's song and men's love,
To love once and forever.
Men's love and birds' love,
And women's love and men's!
And you my wren with a crown of gold,
You my queen of the wrens!
You the queen of the wrens --
We'll be birds of a feather,
I'll be King of the Queen of the wrens,
And all in a nest together.
| Scheme | xaBaBcbc bdxddcdc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 10101 1111 011111 1111 101010 11011 1110010 11011 010101 011110111 111101 101101 1111010 111101101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 484 |
| Words | 92 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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