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
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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William Gilmore Simms

William Gilmore Simms was a poet, novelist and historian from the American South. more…

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