Analysis of The Marriage Of The Seasons
In contrast shares a warming winter cloak
that melts the frost where children slip and slide
and stately branches bared in icy soak
their strength a monument as winter's bride.
Bestowed upon these limbs some warmth to keep
that lifeblood flowing throughout chilly days
this marriage of the bleak with regal sweep
yet just in passage to a coloured phase.
Yet somehow matrimony lives in sync
and secretly awaits a birth in spring
of children that will wave new bones of pink
as life in cycles will each season bring.
Austere yet bold in starkness winter moves
with barest boughs in love's unending grooves.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 0101010101 1101110101 0101010101 1101001101 0101111111 111001101 1101011101 1101010101 11100101 0100010101 1101111111 1101011101 0111010101 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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