Analysis of Another Spring
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
If I might see another Spring
I'd not plant summer flowers and wait:
I'd have my crocuses at once
My leafless pink mezereons,
My chill-veined snow-drops, choicer yet
My white or azure violet,
Leaf-nested primrose; anything
To blow at once, not late.
If I might see another Spring
I'd listen to the daylight birds
That build their nests and pair and sing,
Nor wait for mateless nightingale;
I'd listen to the lusty herds,
The ewes with lambs as white as snow,
I'd find out music in the hail
And all the winds that blow.
If I might see another Spring -
Oh stinging comment on my past
That all my past results in ‘if’ -
If I might see another Spring
I'd laugh today, today is brief
I would not wait for anything:
I'd use today that cannot last,
Be glad today and sing.
Scheme | Abccxxab Adaedfef AgxAxaga |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 111101001 11110011 11011 11111101 11110100 110110 111111 11110101 1101011 11110101 1111100 11010101 01111111 11110001 010111 11110101 11010111 11110101 11110101 11010111 1111110 11011101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 777 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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