Analysis of A Seed
William Allingham 1824 (Ballyshannon) – 1889 (Hampstead)
See how a Seed, which Autumn flung down,
And through the Winter neglected lay,
Uncoils two little green leaves and two brown,
With tiny root taking hold on the clay
As, lifting and strengthening day by day,
It pushes red branchless, sprouts new leaves,
And cell after cell the Power in it weaves
Out of the storehouse of soil and clime,
To fashion a Tree in due course of time;
Tree with rough bark and boughs' expansion,
Where the Crow can build his mansion,
Or a Man, in some new May,
Lie under whispering leaves and say,
"Are the ills of one's life so very bad
When a Green Tree makes me deliciously glad?"
As I do now. But where shall I be
When this little Seed is a tall green Tree?
Scheme | ABABBCCDDEEBBFFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111011 010100101 111011011 1101101101 1100100111 11011111 01101010011 11011101 1100101111 111101010 10111110 1010111 110100101 1011111101 10111101001 111111111 1110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 695 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 534 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 132 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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