Analysis of Spring in New Hampshire
Claude McKay 1889 (Clarendon Parish) – 1948 (Chicago)
Too green the springing April grass,
Too blue the silver-speckled sky,
For me to linger here, alas,
While happy winds go laughing by,
Wasting the golden hours indoors,
Washing windows and scrubbing floors.
Too wonderful the April night,
Too faintly sweet the first May flowers,
The stars too gloriously bright,
For me to spend the evening hours,
When fields are fresh and streams are leaping,
Wearied, exhausted, dully sleeping.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 11010101 11110101 11011101 10010101 10100101 11000101 110101110 01110001 111101010 111101110 10010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 426 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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