Analysis of Before Spring
Alice Duer Miller 1874 (New York) – 1942 (New York)
FARE you well, who love the highways,
Love the cities, tall and bright,
For the forest ways are my ways,
And the birds' songs my delight,
And the stars in river byways
Are my only lamps by night.
I shall see the Spring awaking
While you think it winter still,
Watch the brittle ice forsaking
Edge of marsh and pool and rill,
And the little willows making
Yellow mists against the hill.
Go you to the things you care for,
Violins with trembling string,
Jewels that men do and dare for,
Every lovely, man-wrought thing;
They have caught your spirit, therefore
You have left me ere the Spring.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 1010101 10101111 0011101 0010101 1110111 111011 1111101 10101010 1110101 0010110 1010101 11101111 00111001 10111011 10010111 1111101 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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