Analysis of Summer
Johannes Carl Andersen 1873 – 1962
And sleeps thy heart when flower and tree
Adorn the summer stillness?
And did young Spring pass over thee
In chillness?
Their scent delights and pleases,
On petalled breezes blown,
But in their beauty freezes
Thine own.
The flower awakes, the tree is leafed,
Yet love in thee is dumb,—
Flowers fall, fruits ripen, corn is sheafed,
Ho! Winter’s cold will come.
When wakens some November morn
Dew-soft, around thee brightly,
And blossoms on the grey hawthorn
Lie whitely,
Come thou, thy bosom beating,
And learn, through new-found bliss,
No time so joyous, fleeting,
As this.
Come thou, with shadows in thine eyes,
And singing in thy heart,
And learn, ’mid trees, with flowers and skies,
How young and dear thou art.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GAGA HIHI JKJK |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 011111001 0101010 01111101 01 1101010 11101 1011010 11 01010111 110111 101110111 110111 1110101 1101110 0101011 110 1111010 011111 1111010 11 1111011 010011 011111001 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 828 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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