Analysis of Summer

Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)



Winter is cold-hearted
Spring is yea and nay,
Autumn is a weather-cock
Blown every way:
Summer days for me
When every leaf is on its tree;

When Robin's not a beggar,
And Jenny Wren's a bride,
And larks hang singing, singing, singing,
Over the wheat-fields wide,
And anchored lilies ride,
And the pendulum spider
Swings from side to side,

And blue-black beetles transact business,
And gnats fly in a host,
And furry caterpillars hasten
That no time be lost,
And moths grow fat and thrive,
And ladybirds arrive.

Before green apples blush,
Before green nuts embrown,
Why, one day in the country
Is worth a month in town;
Is worth a day and a year
Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion
That days drone elsewhere.


Scheme XAXABB CDXDDCD XXEXFF XABXXEX
Poetic Form
Metre 101110 11101 1010101 11001 10111 110011111 1101010 010101 011101010 100111 010101 0010010 11111 011100110 011001 01010010 11111 011101 0101 011101 01111 1110010 110101 1101001 1010101110 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 716
Words 127
Sentences 3
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 7, 6, 7
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 139
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote various romantic, devotional, and children's poems. "Goblin Market" and "Remember" remain famous. She wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the UK: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst and by Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", set by Harold Darke and by other composers. more…

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