Analysis of In A Forest Garden: A Promise of Spring
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Spring surely must be near. High over head
The kind blue heavens bend to timbers tall;
And here, this morning, is the picture spread
That I have learned to love the best of all.
I hear Flame Robin call
His early love-song. Winter's might is sped;
And young crows now begin to fleck with red
This great green, living wall.
Picture of promise, that I count the best
Of many a fair familiar Bushland scene;
Lifting o'er all, the far mount's sunlit crest
Looks down where silver wattles lightly screen
Blue smoke, that peeps between
Their tall tops, from some settler's hidden nest
Looks down on golden wattles closely pressed
To blackwood's luscious green.
Before the dovecote, mirrored in the pond,
A veil diaphanous of drifting mist
Makes many a nimbus for grey gums beyond
Whose gaunt, grey limbs a mountain sun has kissed
To palest amethyst.
Now, stepping very daintily, with fond,
Soft cooings, fantails on the lawn respond,
To Spring, the amorist.
From the deep forest, on the clean crisp air,
The bushman's axe-blows echo sharply clear;
A soft cloud's tattered fleece drifts idly where
Glows azure hope. Impatient to appear
Springs now full many a spear
Of marching daffodils. Shorn of cold care,
The joyous bush birds vie with flutings rare.
Spring surely must be near.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111101 0111011101 0111010101 1111110111 111101 1101110111 0111011111 111101 1011011101 1100101011 1010101111 1111010101 111101 111111101 1111010101 11101 010110001 0101001101 11001011101 1111010111 110100 11010111 11110101 110100 1011010111 011110101 0111011101 1101010101 1111001 110101111 010111111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,262 |
Words | 221 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 253 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 12, 2023
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