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?
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 399
Words 76
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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