Analysis of Awake! Awake!
Alfred Austin 1835 (Leeds) – 1913 (Ashford)
``Awake, awake, for the Springtime's sake,
March daffodils too long dreaming;
The lark is high in the spacious sky
And the celandine's stars are gleaming.
The gorse is ablaze, and the woodland sprays
Are as purple as August heather,
The buds unfurl, and mavis and merle
Are singing duets together.
``The rivulets run, first one by one,
Then meet in the swirling river,
And on out-peeping roots the sun-god shoots
The shafts of his golden quiver.
In the hazel copse the thrush never stops
Till with music the world seems ringing,
And the milkmaid hale, as she carries her pail,
Goes home to the dairy, singing:
``And the swain and his sweet in the love-lanes meet,
And welcome and face each other,
Till he folds her charms in his world-wide arms,
With kisses that blind and smother.''
Then the daffodils came, aflame, aflame,
In orchard, and garth, and cover,
And out April leapt, first smiled, then wept,
And longed for her May-day lover.
Scheme | XAXAXBXB XBXBXAXA XBXBXBXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011011 1101110 011100101 0011110 011010011 111011010 010101001 11001010 0111111 11001010 0111010111 01111010 0010101101 111001110 0011111001 11101010 00101100111 01001110 1110101111 11011010 101010101 01001010 011011111 01101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 923 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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