Analysis of Spring

John Le Gay Brereton 1871 (Sydney) – 1933



Spring, and the wispy clouds that fade away
And draw the ecstatic soul in pain to aspire
In maddening flight through heaven's thin flood of fire
To melt in rapture at the heart of day,
The powers of the world that promise and betray
Have dragged me from you in their icy ire
And set me spinning at their loom, for hire,
The shroud in which my senses must decay.
For hire I give myself, and cannot tell
If the blind force that flings me in the chest
Have power or will to pay the bargained price,
Yet for a word of love I gladly quell
The quivering hope of not inactive rest
And very humbly make my sacrifice.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1001011101 010010101101 0100111011110 1101010111 010101110001 1111101101 01110111110 0101110101 1101110101 1011111001 11011110101 1101111101 01001110101 010101110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 603
Words 121
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 481
Words per stanza (avg) 119
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 27, 2023

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John Le Gay Brereton

John Le Gay Brereton was an Australian poet, critic and professor of English at the University of Sydney. He was the first president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers when it was formed in Sydney in 1928. more…

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