Analysis of Spring's Welcome
WHAT bird so sings, yet so does wail?
O 'tis the ravish'd nightingale.
Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu! she cries,
And still her woes at midnight rise.
Brave prick-song! Who is't now we hear?
None but the lark so shrill and clear;
Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,
The morn not waking till she sings.
Hark, hark, with what a pretty throat
Poor robin redbreast tunes his note!
Hark how the jolly cuckoos sing
Cuckoo! to welcome in the spring!
Cuckoo! to welcome in the spring!
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111 1101100 1111111 0101111 111111111 11011101 111011101 01110111 11110101 1101111 11010101 1110001 1110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 485 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 363 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 88 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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