Analysis of Song In March
William Gilmore Simms 1806 (Charleston) – 1870 (Charleston)
NOW are the winds about us in their glee,
Tossing the slender tree;
Whirling the sands about his furious car,
March cometh from afar;
Breaks the sealed magic of old Winter’s dreams,
And rends his glassy streams;
Chafing with potent airs, he fiercely takes
Their fetters from the lakes,
And, with a power by queenly Spring supplied,
Wakens the slumbering tide.
With a wild love he seeks young Summer’s charms
And clasps her to his arms;
Lifting his shield between, he drives away
Old Winter from his prey;—
The ancient tyrant whom he boldly braves,
Goes howling to his caves;
And, to his northern realm compelled to fly,
Yields up the victory;
Melted are all his bands, o’erthrown his towers,
And March comes bringing flowers.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHXAII |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1101011011 100101 10010111001 110101 1011011101 011101 1011011101 110101 0101011101 101001 1011111101 010111 1011011101 110111 0101011101 110111 0111010111 110100 1011111110 0111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 758 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 288 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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