Analysis of Spring In The Alps
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
THE flowers are at their Bacchanals
Among the lusty green;
Wild Orchis and Narcissus waltz
With Marguerite for queen.
Birds join in glees and madrigals
To little loves unseen;
And unimprisoned Waterfalls
Flash laughing in between.
The Sunlight, leaping from the Heights,
Flames o'er the fields of May,
Winged with unnumbered swallow-flights
Fresh from the long sea way;
And butterflies and insect mites,
Born with the new-blown day,
Cross fires in shifting opal lights
From spray to beckoning spray.
The dandelion puffs her balls,
Free spinsters of the air,
Who scorn to wait for beetle calls
Or bees to find them fair;
But breaking through the painted walls
Their sisters tamely bear,
Fly off in dancing down, which falls
And sprouts up everywhere.
And far above Earth's flower-filled lap
And rosy revelry,
The mountain mothers feed her sap
From herded clouds on high--
Each pinnacle and frozen pap
Whose life has long gone by,
A bridge which spans the mighty gap
Between the earth and sky.
St. Gotthardt.
Scheme | ABABABAB ACAC ACAC ADADADAD EXEFEFEFX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111 010101 1100101 10111 11010100 110101 0110 110001 0110101 1100111 111101 110111 010011 110111 110010101 1111001 0100101 11101 11111101 111111 11010101 11011 11010111 01110 010111011 010100 01010101 110111 11000101 111111 01110101 010101 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,014 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4, 8, 9 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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