Analysis of On A Bank As I Sate A Fishing: A Description Of The Spring
Sir Henry Wotton 1568 (parish) – 1639 (chapel of Eton College)
And now all Nature seem'd in love,
The lusty sap began to move;
New juice did stir th'embracing Vines,
And Birds had drawn their Valentines:
The jealous Trout, that low did lie,
Rose at a well-dissembled flie:
There stood my Friend, with patient skill
Attending of his trembling quill.
Already were the Eves possest
With the swift Pilgrims daubed nest.
The Groves already did rejoyce
In Philomels triumphing voice.
The showers were short, the weather mild,
The morning fresh, the evening smil'd.
June takes her neat-rub'd Pale, and now
She trips to milk the Sand-red Cow;
Where for some sturdy foot-ball Swain,
June strokes a sillabub or twain.
The Fields and Gardens were beset
With Tulip, Crocus, Violet:
And now, though late, the modest Rose
Did more then half a blush disclose.
Thus all look'd gay, all full of chear,
To welcome the New-livery'd year.
Scheme | ABCCDDEEFFCGFFHHIIFFJJKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101 01010111 1111110101 0111110 01011111 110111 11111101 010111001 0100011 1011011 0101011 0111 010010101 01010101 11011101 11110111 11110111 110111 01010001 11010100 01110101 11110101 11111111 1100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 841 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 672 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 145 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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