Analysis of In February
Alice Meynell 1847 (London) – 1922
Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn,
Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers,
And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers;
A poet's face asleep in this grey morn.
Now in the midst of the old world forlorn
A mystic child is set in these still hours.
I keep this time, even before the flowers,
Sacred to all the young and the unborn.
To all the miles and miles of unsprung wheat,
And to the Spring waiting beyond the portal,
And to the future of my own young art,
And, among all these things, to you, my sweet,
My friend, to your calm face and the immortal
Child tarrying all your life-time in your heart.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDECDE |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet (93%) |
Metre | 1101010101 0111111010 01011100010 0101010111 1001101101 01011101110 11111001010 1011010011 110101111 01011001010 0101011111 0011111111 11111100010 111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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