Analysis of Daffodils
Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935
Fathered by March, the daffodils are here.
First, all the air grew keen with yesterday,
And once a thrush from out some hollow gray
On a field’s edge, where whitening stalks made cheer,
Fluted the last unto the budding year;
Now that the wind lets loose from orchard spray
Plum bloom and peach bloom down the dripping way,
Their punctual gold through the wet blades they rear.
Oh, fleet and sweet! A light to all that pass
Below, in the cramped yard, close to the street,
Long-stemmed ones flame behind the palings bare,
The whole of April in a tuft of grass.
Scarce here, soon will it be—oh, sweet and fleet!—
Gone like a snatch of song upon the stair.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101011 110111110 0101111101 10111100111 101100101 1101111101 1101110101 11001101111 1101011111 0100111101 111101011 0111000111 1111111101 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 510 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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