Analysis of Here Lies The Blithe Spring
Thomas Dekker 1572 – 1632
HERE lies the blithe Spring,
Who first taught birds to sing,
Yet in April herself fell a-crying:
Then May growing hot,
A sweating sickness she got,
And the first of June lay a-dying.
Yet no month can say,
But her merry daughter May
Stuck her coffins with flowers great plenty:
The cuckoo sung in verse
An epitaph o'er her hearse,
But assure you the lines were not dainty.
Scheme | AAABBA CCDEED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 111111 1010011010 11101 0101011 001111010 11111 1010101 1010110110 01101 1101001 1011010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 380 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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