Analysis of A Cuckoo Song
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Crowns are for kings to wear, sad crowns of gold
Over tired heads that ache, world--cares untold.
Not on thy happy brows, sweet bird of summer,
Set we such crowns to--day, thou Spring's new--comer.
Take from us, rather, thou these our wild posies.
April's and May's we bring, June's with its roses.
Nay and love's Cuckoo flowers, O child of glory!
Cuckoos thine own birds are; these be thy dowry.
Eve of our heart's shut field, need is we grieve thee,
Gone to a world more sweet where we must leave thee.
Russet--clad nightingales, tired of our chaunting,
Out in the dark we weep, our Queen--bird wanting.
Such is the fate of birds. Soon as the Spring comes
Vagrant they flit and fly. Lo! 'tis their King comes.
Endeth our night plaint only when, through the wild wood,
New born the day trips in, laughs as a child would.
O, then we too will laugh, join in the gay chime,
Run to thy marriage bells, birds of the day--time.
Scheme | AABBCCDDDDEECCFFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 10101111101 11110111110 11111111110 11110111011 10011111110 10111011110 10111111110 111011111111 11011111111 1011101101 100111101110 11011111011 10110111111 110111011011 11011011011 11111110011 11110111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 913 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 699 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 169 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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