Analysis of A Calendar of Sonnets: April
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)
No days such honored days as these! While yet
Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide
For some fair thing which should forever bide
On earth, her beauteous memory to set
In fitting frame that no age could forget,
Her name in lovely April's name did hide,
And leave it there, eternally allied
To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.
And when fair Aphrodite passed from earth,
Her shrines forgotten and her feasts of mirth,
A holier symbol still in seal and sign,
Sweet April took, of kingdom most divine,
When Christ ascended, in the time of birth
Of spring anemones, in Palestine.
Scheme | ABBAABBACCDDCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011111 101011101 1111110101 110110011 0101111101 0101010111 0111010001 11010101101 011010111 0101000111 01001010101 1101110101 1101000111 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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