Analysis of The songster
Emily Pauline Johnson 1861 – 1913
Music, music with throb and swing,
Of a plaintive note, and long;
'Tis a note no human throat could sing,
No harp with its dulcet golden string,--
Nor lute, nor lyre with liquid ring,
Is sweet as the robin's song.
He sings for love of the season
When the days grow warm and long,
For the beautiful God-sent reason
That his breast was born for song.
Calling, calling so fresh and clear,
Through the song-sweet days of May;
Warbling there, and whistling here,
He swells his voice on the drinking ear,
On the great, wide, pulsing atmosphere
Till his music drowns the day.
He sings for love of the season
When the days grow warm and long,
For the beautiful God-sent reason
That his breast was born for song.
Scheme | abaaab CBCB deffde CBCB |
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Poetic Form | Song |
Metre | 10101101 1010101 101110111 111110101 11111101 1110101 11111010 1011101 101001110 1111111 10101101 1011111 10010101 111110101 10111010 1110101 11111010 1011101 101001110 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 719 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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