Analysis of Here Lies The Blithe Spring



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
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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Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists. more…

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