Analysis of O Thou Breeze of Spring!
Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1793 (Liverpool, Lancashire) – 1835 (Dublin, County Dublin)
O thou breeze of spring!
Gladdening sea and shore,
Wake the woods to sing,
Streams have felt the sighing
Of thy scented wing,
Let each found replying,
Hail thee, breeze of spring,
Once more!
O'er long-buried flowers
Passing, not in vain,
Odours in soft showers
Thou hast brought again,
Let the primrose greet thee,
Incense forth to meet thee -
Wake my heart no more!
No more!
From a funeral urn
Bower'd in leafy gloom,
Ev'n
thy
soft return
Calls not song or bloom.
Leave my spirit sleeping
Like that silent thing;
Stir the founts of weeping
There
, O breeze of spring,
No more!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 1101 10111 111010 11101 111010 11111 11 1011010 10101 10110 11101 10111 011111 11111 11 101001 10101 11 1 101 11111 111010 11101 101110 1 1111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 559 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 9, 3 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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