Analysis of Daffodil
William Allingham 1824 (Ballyshannon) – 1889 (Hampstead)
Gold tassel upon March's bugle-horn,
Whose blithe reveille blows from hill to hill
And every valley rings--O Daffodil!
What promise for the season newly born?
Shall wave on wave of flow'rs, full tide of corn,
O'erflow the world, then fruited Autumn fill
Hedgerow and garth? Shall tempest, blight, or chill
Turn all felicity to scathe and scorn?
Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring
Lies open, writ in blossoms; not a bird
Of evil augury is seen or heard:
Come now, like Pan's old crew, we'll dance and sing,
Or Oberon's: for hill and valley ring
To March's bugle-horn,--Earth's blood is stirred.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDDCCD |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet |
Metre | 1100110101 11111111 0100101110 1101010101 1111111111 10111101 101110111 1101001101 1010111 1101010101 11011111 1111111101 11110101 1101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 231 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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