Analysis of An April Adoration
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 1860 (Douglas) – 1943 (Toronto)
Sang the sun rise on an amber morn -
'Earth, be glad! An April day is born.
'Winter's done, and April's in the skies,
Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!'
Putting off her dumb dismay of snow,
Earth bade all her unseen children grow.
Then the sound of growing in the air
Rose to God a liturgy of prayer;
And the thronged succession of the days
Uttered up to God a psalm of praise.
Laughed the running sap in every vein,
Laughed the running flurries of warm rain,
Laughed the life in every wandering root,
Laughed the tingling cells of bud and shoot.
God in all the concord of their mirth
Heard the adoration-song of Earth.
Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 101111101 111110111 101010001 111110011 101010111 111001101 101110001 111010011 001010101 101110111 1010101001 101010111 10101001001 1010011101 10101111 10010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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