Analysis of Spring
Alice Duer Miller 1874 (New York) – 1942 (New York)
'YES, Spring has come,' the grocer said,
And tied a final knot of string,
Rang up the change and becked his head,
Elated at the breath of Spring.
'Yes, Spring has come,' the poet said,
And poured his ecstasy in rhymes,
Which eager, homesick exiles read
Long winter-locked in frozen climes.
Perhaps the grocer's way was best,
If joy can better be, or worse:
He saved his rapture unexpressed,
The poet spent his for a verse.
Scheme | ABAB ACAC XDAD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110101 01010111 11010111 01010111 11110101 01110001 110111 11010101 01010111 11110111 111101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 422 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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