Analysis of A Song For Candlemas
Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935
There’s never a rose upon the bush,
And never a bud on any tree;
In wood and field nor hint nor sign
Of one green thing for you or me.
Come in, come in, sweet love of mine,
And let the bitter weather be!
Coated with ice the garden wall;
The river reeds are stark and still;
The wind goes plunging to the sea,
And last week’s flakes the hollows fill.
Come in, come in, sweet love, to me,
And let the year blow as it will!
Scheme | XABABA XCACAC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010101 010011101 01011111 11111111 10101111 01010101 10110101 01011101 01110101 01110101 10101111 01011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 421 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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