Analysis of Spring Song
The ides of March have gone and come.
Still, strains of vernal music sound
dumb echoes, in my ears, of early times,
of other years: an orchestral swell
of oboe, flute, and violin;
the feel of warming wind;
the scents of orange blossom,
daisy, buttercup, and clover.
Are those days over?
My recent times are flavored
with metallic clank, with oily odor --
eyes fatigued by newsprint
and small-screen glare.
And music: the blare
of claxon-horn and siren-wail;
noise which issues from a box
borne on shoulders through the street;
an empty, but compelling, quite insistent
loudly pulsing beat.
I welcome all new, though slight, intrusions:
pale sensory perceptions bring back images,
now faint, once acute, of places, times,
and pleasures past.
Faded sights and faces
and shadowy, unquantifiable pursuits
evoke a time when love, like freedom,
didn't cost a dime.
Scheme | AXBXXXACC XCXDDXXEXE XFBXFXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101 11110101 1100111101 110110101 11010001 011101 0111010 1010010 11110 1101110 1010111010 10111 0111 01001 11010101 1110101 1110101 11010101010 10101 1101111010 110001011100 111011101 0101 101010 0100101 010111110 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 832 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 10, 8 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 225 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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