Analysis of Lines
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
THOU camest with the coming Spring!
With swallows, and the murmuring
Of unloosed waters, with the birth
Of daisies dimpling the green earth.
And when the perfect rose of June
Responded to the golden noon,
My heart's deep core, suffused with bliss,
Broke into flower beneath thy kiss.
But now the swallows seaward fly,
The winds in chorus wail, 'Good-bye!'
The dead leaves whirl, and like a leaf
My heart shakes on the gusts of grief.
And yet awhile earth's flowerless breast
In lethal folds of snow will rest;
On thee too heart, with all thy woe,
Death falls one day like falling snow.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1110101 11000100 1110101 1101011 01001111 01010101 11110111 101100111 11010101 01010111 01110101 11110111 0101111 01011111 11111111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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