Analysis of Spring

Lord Alfred Douglas 1870 (Worcestershire) – 1945 (Lancing)



Wake up again, sad heart, wake up again !
(I heard the birds this morning singing sweet.)
Wake up again ! The sky was crystal clear,
And washed quite clean with rain ;
And tar below my heart stirred with the year,
Stirred with the year and sighed. O pallid feet
Move now at last, O heart that sleeps with pain
Rise up and hear
The voices in the valleys, run to meet
The songs and shadows. O wake up again !

Put out green leaves, dead tree, put out green leaves t
(Last night the moon was soft and kissed the air.)
Put out green leaves ! The moon was in the skies,
All night she wakes and weaves.
The dew was on the grass like fairies' eyes,
Like fairies' eyes. O trees so black and bare,
Remember all the fruits, the full gold sheaves;
For nothing dies,
The songs that are, are silences that were,
Summer was Winter. O put but green leaves!

Break through the earth, pale flower, break through the earth !
(All day the lark has sung a madrigal.)
Break through the earth that lies not lightly yet
And waits thy patient birth,
Waits for the jonquil and the violet,
The violet. Full soon the heavy pall
Will be a bed, and in the noon of mirth
Some rivulet
Will bubble in my wilderness, some call
Will touch my silence. O break through the earth.


Scheme ABCDCBDXBA XEFGFEGFXG HXXHXXHBXH
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Etheree  (33%)
Metre 1101111101 1101110101 1101011101 011111 0101111101 1101011101 1111111111 1101 0100010111 010111101 11111111111 1101110101 1111011001 111101 0111011101 1101111101 0101010111 1101 0111110010 1011011111 11011101101 1101110100 1101111101 011101 110100100 0100110101 1101000111 11 1100110011 1111011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,220
Words 239
Sentences 18
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 10, 10, 10
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 318
Words per stanza (avg) 80
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, nicknamed Bosie, was a British author, poet and translator, better known as the friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poet. more…

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