Analysis of The Wistful Days
Robert Underwood Johnson 1853 ( Washington, D.C) – 1937 ( New York)
What is there wanting in the Spring?
The air is soft as yesteryear;
The happy-nested green is here,
And half the world is on the wing.
The morning beckons, and like balm
Are westward waters blue and calm.
Yet something’s wanting in the Spring.
What is it wanting in the Spring?
O April, lover to us all,
What is so poignant in thy thrall
When children’s merry voices ring?
What haunts us in the cooing dove
More subtle than the speech of Love,
What nameless lack or loss of Spring?
Let Youth go dally with the Spring,
Call her the dear, the fair, the young;
And all her graces ever sung
Let him, once more rehearsing, sing.
They know, who keep a broken tryst,
Till something from the Spring be missed
We have not truly known the Spring.
Scheme | AXXABBA ACCADDA AEEAFFA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110001 0111110 01010111 01011101 01010011 11010101 1110001 11110001 11010111 11110011 11010101 11100101 11010111 11011111 11110101 10010101 01010101 11110101 11110101 11010111 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 732 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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