Analysis of To Flora
When April woke the drowsy flowers,
And vagrant odors thronged the breeze,
And bluebirds wrangled in the bowers,
And daisies flashed along the leas,
And faint arbutus strove among
Dead winter's leaf-strewn wreck to rise,
And nature's sweetly jubilant song
Went murmuring up the sunny skies,
Into this cheerful world you came,
And gained by right your vernal name.
I think the springs have changed of late,
For "Arctics" are my daily wear,
The skies are turned to cold gray slate,
And zephyrs are but draughts of air;
But you make up whate'er we lack,
When we, too rarely, come together,
More potent than the almanac,
You bring the ideal April weather;
When you are with us we defy
The blustering air, the lowering sky;
In spite of Winter's icy darts,
We've spring and sunshine in our hearts.
In fine, upon this April day,
This deep conundrum I will bring:
Tell me the two good reasons, pray,
I have, to say you are like spring?
You give it up? Because we love you
And see so very little of you.
Scheme | ABABXCXCDD EFEFGHGHIIJJ KLKLMM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101010 01010101 01100010 01010101 011101 11011111 010101001 110010101 01110111 01111101 11011111 1111101 01111111 01011111 11111011 111101010 1101010 110011010 11111101 0100101001 01110101 11010101 01011101 11010111 11011101 11111111 111101111 011101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,002 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 12, 6 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 259 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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