Analysis of To My Sister
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
It is the first mild day of March:
Each minute sweeter than before
The redbreast sings from the tall larch
That stands beside our door.
There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.
My sister! ('tis a wish of mine)
Now that our morning meal is done,
Make haste, your morning task resign;
Come forth and feel the sun.
Edward will come with you;--and, pray,
Put on with speed your woodland dress;
And bring no book: for this one day
We'll give to idleness.
No joyless forms shall regulate
Our living calendar:
We from to-day, my Friend, will date
The opening of the year.
Love, now a universal birth,
From heart to heart is stealing,
From earth to man, from man to earth:
--It is the hour of feeling.
One moment now may give us more
Than years of toiling reason:
Our minds shall drink at every pore
The spirit of the season.
Some silent laws our hearts will make,
Which they shall long obey:
We for the year to come may take
Our temper from to-day.
And from the blessed power that rolls
About, below, above,
We'll frame the measure of our souls:
They shall be tuned to love.
Then come, my Sister! come, I pray,
With speed put on your woodland dress;
And bring no book: for this one day
We'll give to idleness.
Scheme | abab cdcd efef ghGI jxjx klkl bfbf mgmg nono ghGI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (70%) Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 11011111 11010101 0111011 1101101 11010001 11011111 10110101 010011 11010111 111010111 11110101 110101 10111101 1111111 01111111 111100 111110 1010100 11111111 0100101 1100101 1111110 11111111 11010110 11011111 1111010 1011111001 0101010 110110111 111101 11011111 1010111 01011011 010101 110101101 111111 11110111 1111111 01111111 111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,306 |
Words | 249 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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