Analysis of A Song Of The Seasons
William Cosmo Monkhouse 1840 (London) – 1901
Sing a song of Spring-time,
The world is going round,
Blown by the south wind:
Listen to its sound.
'Gurgle' goes the mill-wheel,
'Cluck' clucks the hen;
And it's O for a pretty girl
To kiss in the glen.
Sing a song of Summer,
The world is nearly still,
The mill-pond has gone to sleep,
And so has the mill.
Shall we go a-sailing,
Or shall we take a ride,
Or dream the afternoon away
Here, side by side?
Sing a song of Autumn,
The world is going back;
They glean in the corn-field,
And stamp on the stack.
Our boy, Charlie,
Tall, strong, and light:
He shoots all the day
And dances all the night.
Sing a song of Winter,
The world stops dead;
Under snowy coverlid
Flowers lie abed.
There's hunting for the young ones
And wine for the old,
And a sexton in the churchyard
Digging in the cold.
Scheme | XAXAXBXB CDXDXEFE XGXGXHFH CIAIXJXJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 011101 11011 10111 101011 1101 01110101 11001 101110 011101 0111111 01101 111010 111101 1100101 1111 101110 011101 110011 01101 10110 1101 11101 010101 101110 0111 10101 10101 1101011 01101 0010001 10001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 766 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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