Analysis of Armenian Folk-Song--The Stork
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Welcome, O truant stork!
And where have you been so long?
And do you bring that grace of spring
That filleth my heart with song?
Descend upon my roof--
Bide on this ash content;
I would have you know what cruel woe
Befell me when you went.
All up in the moody sky
(A shifting threat o'er head!)
They were breaking the snow and bidding it go
Cover the beautiful dead.
Came snow on garden spot,
Came snow on mere and wold,
Came the withering breath of white robed death,
And the once warm earth was cold.
Stork, the tender rose tree,
That bloometh when you are here,
Trembled and sighed like a waiting bride--
Then drooped on a virgin bier.
But the brook that hath seen you come
Leaps forth with a hearty shout,
And the crocus peeps from the bed where it sleeps
To know what the noise is about.
Welcome, O honest friend!
And bide on my roof content;
For my heart would sing of the grace of spring,
When the winter of woe is spent.
Scheme | XABA XCDC XEDE XFXF XGXG XHXH XCBC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101101 0111111 01111111 111111 010111 111110 111111101 011111 1100101 0101101 10100101011 1001001 111101 111101 1010011111 0011111 101011 111111 100110101 1110101 10111111 1110101 00101101111 11101101 101101 0111110 1111110111 10101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 909 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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