Analysis of Spring
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Frost-locked all the winter,
Seeds, and roots, and stones of fruits,
What shall make their sap ascend
That they may put forth shoots?
Tips of tender green,
Leaf, or blade, or sheath;
Telling of the hidden life
That breaks forth underneath,
Life nursed in its grave by Death.
Blows the thaw-wind pleasantly,
Drips the soaking rain,
By fits looks down the waking sun:
Young grass springs on the plain;
Young leaves clothe early hedgerow trees;
Seeds, and roots, and stones of fruits,
Swollen with sap put forth their shoots;
Curled-headed ferns sprout in the lane;
Birds sing and pair again.
There is no time like Spring,
When life's alive in everything,
Before new nestlings sing,
Before cleft swallows speed their journey back
Along the trackless track -
God guides their wing,
He spreads their table that they nothing lack, -
Before the daisy grows a common flower
Before the sun has power
To scorch the world up in his noontide hour.
There is no time like Spring,
Like Spring that passes by;
There is no life like Spring-life born to die, -
Piercing the sod,
Clothing the uncouth clod,
Hatched in the nest,
Fledged on the windy bough,
Strong on the wing:
There is no time like Spring that passes by,
Now newly born, and now
Hastening to die.
Scheme | aBcbxdxdx xexexBbex Fffggfgaaa Fhhxcxifhih |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 1010111 1111101 111111 11101 11111 1010101 11101 1101111 1011100 10101 11110101 111101 1111011 1010111 10111111 11011001 110101 111111 1101010 011101 0111011101 01011 1111 1111011101 01010101010 0101110 1101101110 111111 111101 1111111111 1001 100111 1001 110101 1101 1111111101 110101 10011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,251 |
Words | 221 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 10, 11 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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