Analysis of A Summer Mood
Augusta Davies Webster 1837 (Poole, Dorset) – 1894
BUT wait. Let each by each the days pass by,
One faded and one blown like summer flowers;
What need of hope, with summer in the sky?
What of regret, with all fair morrows ours?
If yesterday be gone,No reck, 'twas not alone,
To-morrow will have just so sweet long hours.
But yet to-day is sweetest till 'tis flown.
But wait. Let summer day be changed from day,
Like following surges of the ebb and flow;
And flow brings breath of saltness and blithe spray,
And ebb long music of seas plashing low.
The waves, stolen out of reach
,Have no farewell for speech;
Next tide will roll as swift, as rippling go.
And yet 'tis now that's best along the beach.
Ah wait. The while we linger our lives live,
Our summer ripens purpose through our dreams;
Flower-petals fallen leave a seed to thrive,
Spent tides heap treasures from the deep sea streams;
Now drifts by unaware,
And Afterwards is heir;
To-morrow wins the wealth of yester gleams.
Yet 'tis to-day that summer makes most fair.
Scheme | ABABCBC DEDEFFEF GHGHIIHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110111 11001111010 1111110001 1101111110 1101111101 11011111110 1111110111 1111011111 11001010101 011111011 011101111 0110111 11111 11111111001 0111110101 11011101011 10101101101 10101010111 1111010111 11101 010011 110101111 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 962 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 252 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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