Analysis of To K.M.D.
James Clerk Maxwell 1831 (Edinburgh, Scotland) – 1879 (Cambridge, England)
In the buds, before they burst,
Leaves and flowers are moulded;
Closely pressed they lie at first,
Exquisitely folded.
Though no hope of change they felt,
Folded hard together,
Soon their sap begins to melt
In the warmer weather.
Till, when Life returns with Spring,
Through them softly stealing,
All their freshness forth they fling,
Hidden forms revealing. [606]
Who can fold those flowers again,
In the way he found them?
Or those spreading leaves restrain,
In the buds that bound them?
Trust me, Spring is very near,
All the buds are swelling;
All the glory of the year
In those buds is dwelling.
What the opened buds reveal
Tells us—Life is flowing;
What the buds, still shut, conceal,
We shall end in knowing.
Long I lingered in the bud
Doubting of the season,
Winter's cold had chilled my blood-—
I was ripe for treason.
Now no more I doubt or wait,
All my fears are vanished,
Summer’s coming, dear, though late,
Fogs and frosts are banished.
Scheme | AAAB CDCD EEEX XFXF GEGE HEHE BIBI JKJK |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 0010111 101011 1011111 10010 1111111 101010 1110111 001010 1110111 111010 1110111 1010101 11111001 001111 1110101 001111 1111101 101110 1010101 011110 1010101 111110 1011101 111010 1110001 101010 1011111 111110 1111111 111110 1010111 101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 932 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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