Analysis of Blossom-time.
Yes, it is drawing nigh -
The time of blossoming;
The waiting heart beats stronger
With every breath of Spring,
The days are growing longer;
While happy hours go by
As if on zephyr wing.
A wealth of mellow light
Reflected from the skies
The hill and vale is flooding;
Still in their leafless guise
The Jacqueminots are budding,
Creating new delight
By promise of surprise.
The air is redolent
As ocean breezes are
From spicy islands blowing,
Or groves of Malabar
Where sandal-wood is growing;
Or sweet, diffusive scent,
From fragrant attar-jar.
Just so is loveliness
Renewed from year to year;
And thus emotions tender,
Born of the atmosphere,
Of bloom, and vernal splendor
That words cannot express,
Make Spring forever dear.
Can mortal man behold
So beautiful a scene,
Without the innate feeling
That thus, like dying sheen
The sunset hues revealing,
Glints pure, celestial gold
On fields of living green?
Scheme | ABCBCAB DEBEBDE XCBCBXX EFCFCXF GHBHBGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 011100 0101110 1100111 0111010 1101011 111101 011101 010101 0101110 101101 01110 010101 110101 011100 110101 1101010 1111 1101110 1111 110101 1111 011111 0101010 11010 1101010 111001 110101 110101 110001 0100110 111101 011010 110101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 885 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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