Analysis of Early Summer
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
’Tis the early summer season, when the skies are clear and blue;
When wide warm fields are glad with corn as green as ever grew,
And upland growths of wattles engolden all the view.
Oh! Is there conscious joyance in that heven so clearly blue?
And is it a felt happiness that thus comes beating through
Great nature’s mother heart, when the golden year is new?
When the woods are whitened over by the jolly cockatoo,
And swarm with birds as beautiful as ever gladdened through
The shining hours of time when the golden year was new?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010101011101 11111111111101 01011101101 1111010111101 01101100111101 1101011010111 1011110101010 0111110011011 01010111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 3 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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