This is an analysis of When Trees Are Green by Jean Blewett.
Would you be glad of heart and good?
Would you forget life's toil and care?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX eeeX fgfg aaaa XaXa dhdh iXiX bjbj egeg jdjd kaka
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010110 11011111 11100011 11110101 01111111 010101001 01110101 11000100 11110101 111110111 11011111 01010111 011100111 01011111 11010101 110100101 111111001 11110101 01010111 01111111 010010100 010000101 11010101 01011111 01011111 01111101 11010111 010110101 11010101 11000101 11001101 11011101 11110011 10110111 01010011 01011101 11010111 10000101 01011101 01110001 110100111 10000111 01011101 01000110 11110001 001101001 111101011 01011100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
i, on, and, of
Anaphora
would, the, spring's
