Analysis of Last Spring
Isabel Ecclestone Mackay 1875 (Woodstock, Ontario) – 1928 (Ontario)
THIS morning at the door
I heard the Spring.
Quickly I set it wide
And, welcoming,
'Come in, sweet Spring,' I cried,
'The winter ash, long dried,
Waits but your breath to rise
On phantom wing.'
A brown leaf shivered by,
A soulless thing--
My heart in quick dismay
Forgot to sing--
Twisted and grim it lay,
Kin to the ghost-ash gray,
Dead, dead--strange herald this
Of jocund Spring!
I spurned it from the door.
I longed that Spring
Should come with song and glow
And rush of wing,
Not this, not this!--But O
Dead leaf, a year ago
You were the dear first-born
Of Hope and Spring!
Scheme | ABCBCCXB XBDBDDXB ABEBEEXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 1101 101111 0100 101111 010111 111111 1101 011101 0101 110101 0111 100111 110111 111101 111 111101 1111 111101 0111 111111 110101 100111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 563 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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