Analysis of Spring
Eliza Cook 1818 (London Road, Southwark) – 1889 (Wimbledon)
Welcome, all hail to thee!
Welcome, young Spring!
Thy sun-ray is bright
On the butterfly’s wing.
Beauty shines forth
In the blossom-robed trees;
Perfume floats by
On the soft southern breeze.
Music, sweet music,
Sounds over the earth;
One glad choral song
Greets the primrose’s birth;
The lark soars above,
With its shrill matin strain;
The shepherd boy tunes
His reed pipe on the plain.
Music, sweet music,
Cheers meadow and lea;—
In the song of the blackbird,
The hum of the bee;
The loud happy laughter
Of children at play
Proclaim how they worship
Spring’s beautiful day.
The eye of the hale one,
With joy in its gleam,
Looks up in the noontide,
And steals from the beam;
But the cheek of the pale one
Is mark’d with despair,
To feel itself fading,
When all is so fair.
The hedges, luxuriant
With flowers and balm,
Are purple with violets,
And shaded with palm;
The zephyr-kiss’d grass
Is beginning to wave;
Fresh verdure is decking
The garden and grave.
Welcome! all hail to thee,
Heart-stirring May!
Thou hast won from my wild harp
A rapturous lay.
And the last dying murmur
That sleeps on the string
Is welcome! All hail to thee,
Welcome, young Spring!
Scheme | ABcbxdxd Efxfxgxg Eaxahixi jkckjlbl xmxmxnbn AixihbaB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 1011 11111 1011 1011 001011 0111 101101 10110 11001 11101 10101 01101 11111 01011 111101 10110 1101 0011010 01101 011010 11011 011110 11001 011011 11011 11001 01101 1011011 11101 110110 11111 0100100 11001 1101100 01011 01011 101011 11110 01001 101111 1101 1111111 01001 0011010 11101 1101111 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,244 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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