Analysis of A Chanted Calendar
Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874
FIRST came the primrose,
On the bank high,
Like a maiden looking forth
From the window of a tower
When the battle rolls below,
So look'd she,
And saw the storms go by.
Then came the wind-flower
In the valley left behind,
As a wounded maiden, pale
With purple streaks of woe,
When the battle has roll'd by
Wanders to and fro,
So totter'd she,
Dishevell'd in the wind.
Then came the daisies,
On the first of May,
Like a banner'd show's advance
While the crowd runs by the way,
With ten thousand flowers about them
they came trooping through the fields.
As a happy people come,
So came they,
As a happy people come
When the war has roll'd away,
With dance and tabor, pipe and drum,
And all make holiday.
Then came the cowslip,
Like a dancer in the fair,
She spread her little mat of green,
And on it danced she.
With a fillet bound about her brow,
A fillet round her happy brow,
A golden fillet round her brow,
And rubies in her hair.
Scheme | xaxbcda bexcacde xfxfxx GfGfgf xhxdiiih |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (26%) |
Metre | 1101 1011 1010101 10101010 1010101 111 010111 110110 0010101 1010101 110111 1010111 10101 111 1001 11010 10111 101101 1011101 111010011 1110101 1010101 111 1010101 1011101 11010101 01110 11010 1010001 11010111 01111 100110101 00110101 01001101 010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 906 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 6, 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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