Analysis of Portends of Spring
Gnarled bark
brownish-red and glossy,
in cool morning sun buds wait to burst,
eager,
impatient to flaunt flowering beauty.
Branches sway
dancing to music unheard,
in late winter’s breeze grass begins to green,
birds return,
their songs portend coming spring.
Morning rises
light peaks through,
not in veil of shadow or chill unwelcoming dawn,
casting life,
painting the white walls of my room.
Life returns
cautiously optimistic
not with foolhardy glee, children play at recess,
soccer moms jog,
bundled old men amble along park lanes.
Squirrels and I
are skeptical,
having been fooled before by morning frost
reminding us of winter,
sitting under this ornamental cherry, I await its flowering beauty.
Scheme | XAXBA XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXBA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (36%) |
Metre | 11 101010 011011111 10 0101110010 101 1011001 0110110111 101 1101101 1010 111 101111111 101 10011111 101 100010 11101101101 1011 1011100111 1001 1100 1011011101 0101110 1010101010101110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 707 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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