Analysis of Spring Song

Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)



Hark, I hear a robin calling!
List, the wind is from the south!
And the orchard-bloom is falling
Sweet as kisses on the mouth.

In the dreamy vale of beeches
Fair and faint is woven mist,
And the river's orient reaches
Are the palest amethyst.

Every limpid brook is singing
Of the lure of April days;
Every piney glen is ringing
With the maddest roundelays.

Come and let us seek together
Springtime lore of daffodils,
Giving to the golden weather
Greeting on the sun-warm hills.

Ours shall be the moonrise stealing
Through the birches ivory-white;
Ours shall be the mystic healing
Of the velvet-footed night.

Ours shall be the gypsy winding
Of the path with violets blue,
Ours at last the wizard finding
Of the land where dreams come true.


Scheme ABAB CDCD ACAC ECEC AFAF AGAG
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11101010 1011101 00101110 1110101 0010111 1011101 00101010 1010100 10011110 1011101 10011110 1011 10111010 11110 10101010 1010111 10110110 1011001 101101010 1010101 101101010 10111001 101101010 1011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 734
Words 132
Sentences 9
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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