Analysis of Sonnet II
Charlotte Smith 1749 (London) – 1806 (Tilford, Surrey)
Written at the close of Spring.
THE garlands fade that Spring so lately wove,
Each simple flower, which she had nursed in dew,
Anemonies, that spangled every grove,
The primrose wan, and hare-bell mildly blue.
No more shall violets linger in the dell,
Or purple orchis variegate the plain,
Till Spring again shall call forth every bell,
And dress with humid hands her wreaths again.-
Ah! poor humanity! so frail, so fair,
Are the fond visions of thy early day,
Till tyrant passion and corrosive care
Bid all thy fairy colours fade away!
Another May new buds and flowers shall bring;
Ah! why has happiness-no second spring?
Scheme | A BCBCDXDXEFEFAA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1010111 011111101 11010111101 11101001 011011101 11110010001 110110001 11011111001 0111010101 1101001111 1011011101 1101000101 111101101 01011101011 1111001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 246 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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