Analysis of Written in March
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
The cock is crowing,
The stream is flowing,
The small birds twitter,
The lake doth glitter
The green field sleeps in the sun;
The oldest and youngest
Are at work with the strongest;
The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising;
There are forty feeding like one!
Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,
And now doth fare ill
On the top of the bare hill;
The plowboy is whooping- anon-anon:
There's joy in the mountains;
There's life in the fountains;
Small clouds are sailing,
Blue sky prevailing;
The rain is over and gone!
Scheme | AABBCDDAAC EEFFCGGAAX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 01110 01110 01110 01110 0111001 010010 1111010 010110 111010 11101011 1110010 011010 01111 1011011 0111011 110010 110010 11110 11010 0111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 543 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 211 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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