Analysis of The Songs of Summer
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
The songs of summer are over and past!
The swallow's forsaken the dripping eaves;
Ruined and black 'mid the sodden leaves
The nests are rudely swung in the blast:
And ever the wind like a soul in pain
Knocks and knocks at the window-pane.
The songs of summer are over and past!
Woe's me for a music sweeter than theirs--
The quick, light bound of a step on the stairs,
The greeting of lovers too sweet to last:
And ever the wind like a soul in pain
Knocks and knocks at the window-pane.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111011001 010100101 100110101 011101001 0100110101 10110101 0111011001 1110101011 0111101101 0101101111 0100110101 10110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 494 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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