Analysis of Spring
William Wilfred Campbell 1860 (Newmarket) – 1918 (Ottawa)
There dwells a spirit in the budding year-
As motherhood doth beautify the face-
That even lends these barren glebes a grace,
And fills grey hours with beauty that were drear
And bleak when the loud, storming March was here:
A glamour that the thrilled heart dimly traces
In swelling boughs and soft, wet, windy spaces,
And sunlands where the chattering birds make cheer.
I thread the uplands where the wind's footfalls
Stir leaves in gusty hollows, autumn's urns.
Seaward the river's shining breast expands,
High in the windy pines a lone crow calls,
And far below some patient ploughman turns
His great black furrow over steaming lands.
| Scheme | ABBACDDABBEFGE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101000101 11011001 1101110101 01110110101 0110110111 01010111010 01010111010 0110100111 110101011 1101010101 1001010101 1001010111 010111011 1111010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 633 |
| Words | 110 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 514 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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