Analysis of Milton Read Again (in Surrey)
Clive Staples Lewis 1898 (Clive Staples Lewis Belfast) – 1963 (Oxford)
Three golden months while summer on us stole
I have read your joyful tale another time,
Breathing more freely in that larger clime
And learning wiselier to deserve the whole.
Your Spirit, Master, has been close at hand
And guided me, still pointing treasures rare,
Thick-sown where I before saw nothing fair
And finding waters in the barren land,
Barren once thought because my eyes were dim.
Like one I am grown to whom the common field
And often-wandered copse one morning yield
New pleasures suddenly; for over him
Falls the weird spirit of unexplained delight,
New mystery in every shady place,
In every whispering tree a nameless grace,
New rapture on the windy seaward height.
So may she come to me, teaching me well
To savour all these sweets that lie to hand
In wood and lane about this pleasant land
Though it be not the land where I would dwell.
Scheme | ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG ICCI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101110111 11111010101 1011001101 010110101 1101011111 0101110101 1111011101 0101000101 1011011101 11111110101 0101011101 1101001101 1011010101 11000100101 010010010101 1101010101 1111111011 111111111 0101011101 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 844 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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