Analysis of A Touch of Nature

Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)



When first the crocus thrusts its point of gold
Up through the still snow-drifted garden mould,
And folded green things in dim woods unclose
Their crinkled spears, a sudden tremor goes
Into my veins and makes me kith and kin
To every wild-born thing that thrills and blows.
Sitting beside this crumbling sea-coal fire,
Here in the city's ceaseless roar and din,
Far from the brambly paths I used to know,
Far from the rustling brooks that slip and shine
Where the Neponset alders take their glow,
I share the tremulous sense of bud and briar
And inarticulate ardors of the vine.


Scheme AABBCBDCEFEDF
Poetic Form
Metre 1101011111 1101110101 010110111 111010101 0111011101 11001111101 100111001110 1001010101 110111111 1101011101 100101111 110100111010 0001001101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 586
Words 104
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 465
Words per stanza (avg) 102
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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