Analysis of Spring's Bedfellow
William Morris 1834 (Walthamstow) – 1896 (London)
Spring went about the woods to-day,
The soft-foot winter-thief,
And found where idle sorrow lay
’Twixt flower and faded leaf.
She looked on him, and found him fair
For all she had been told;
She knelt adown beside him there,
And sang of days of old.
His open eyes beheld her nought,
Yet ’gan his lips to move;
But life and deeds were in her thought,
And he would sing of love.
So sang they till their eyes did meet,
And faded fear and shame;
More bold he grew, and she more sweet,
Until they sang the same.
Until, say they who know the thing,
Their very lips did kiss,
And Sorrow laid abed with Spring
Begat an earthly bliss.
Scheme | ABABCDCD AXXX EFEF GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 11010111 011101 01110101 1100101 11110111 111111 1110111 011111 1101101 111111 11010001 011111 11111111 010101 11110111 011101 01111101 110111 01010111 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 618 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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