Analysis of The Green Thicket
Cicely Fox Smith 1882 (Lymm, Cheshire) – 1954 (Bow, Devon)
All in a green thicket I heard a bird sing,
And blithe though his song was it made the tears spring,
To hear a bird sing as he swung on his spray,
All in a green thicket at break of the day.
All in a green thicket his song it did pour
That told of the Springs that shall come nevermore,
That sang of sweet blossoms, now faded and dry,
All in a green thicket in Aprils gone by.
All in a green thicket that morning in Spring,
I smelt the sharp scent of each young growing thing,
I smelt the sweet herbage all drowned with the dew,
And the time that's gone from me was with me anew.
All in a green thicket at break of the day
It was like the dear voice of a friend far away,
It was like the kind touch of a hand that I know,
And the smile and the tears of dead Aprils ago,
All in a green thicket one morning in Spring,
For to smell the young woodland and hear the bird sing,
Oh, long did I loiter and dream by the way,
All in a green thicket at break of the day.
Scheme | aabB ccdd aaee Bbff aabB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10011011011 01111111011 11011111111 10011011101 10011011111 1110111110 11111011001 1001100111 10011011001 11011111101 1101111101 001111111101 10011011101 111011101101 111011101111 00100111101 10011011001 11101101011 11111001101 10011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 948 |
Words | 204 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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