Analysis of Song.
Francis Brett Young 1884 (Halesowen) – 1954 (Cape Town)
Why have you stolen my delight
In all the golden shows of Spring
When every cherry-tree is white
And in the limes the thrushes sing,
O fickler than the April day,
O brighter than the golden broom,
O blither than the thrushes' lay,
O whiter than the cherry-bloom,
O sweeter than all things that blow ...
Why have you only left for me
The broom, the cherry's crown of snow,
And thrushes in the linden-tree?
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110101 01010111 110010111 00010101 1110101 11010101 1110101 11010101 11011111 11110111 01010111 01000101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 399 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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