Analysis of A Spring Song
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
Dark sod pierced by flames of flowers,
Dead wood freshly quickening,
Bright skies dusked with sudden showers,
Lit by rainbows on the wing.
Cuckoo calls and young lambs' bleating,
Nimble airs which coyly bring
Little gusts of tender greeting
From shy nooks where violets cling.
Half-fledged buds and birds and vernal
Fields of grass dew-glistening;
Evanescent life's eternal
Resurrection, bridal Spring!
Scheme | ABAB BBBB CBCB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111110 1110100 11111010 111101 110111 1011101 10111010 11111001 11101010 1111100 0101010 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 410 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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