Analysis of Spring Song

Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906



A BLUE-BELL springs upon the ledge,
A lark sits singing in the hedge;
Sweet perfumes scent the balmy air,
And life is brimming everywhere.
What lark and breeze and bluebird sing,
Is Spring, Spring, Spring!
No more the air is sharp and cold;
The planter wends across the wold,
And, glad, beneath the shining sky
We wander forth, my love and I.
And ever in our hearts doth ring
This song of Spring, Spring!
For life is life and love is love,
'Twixt maid and man or dove and dove.
Life may be short, life may be long,
But love will come, and to its song
Shall this refrain for ever cling
Of Spring, Spring, Spring!


Scheme AABBCCDDEECCFFGGCC
Poetic Form
Metre 01110101 01110001 10110101 0111010 1101011 1111 11011101 01010101 01010101 11011101 010010111 11111 11110111 11011101 11111111 11110111 11011101 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 602
Words 118
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 470
Words per stanza (avg) 116
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar was a seminal American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 Lyrics of a Lowly Life one poem in the collection being Ode to Ethiopia more…

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