Sweet, Sinless Spring

"long and lovely and lush"
Spring

The word for this poem is alliteration! Repeated consonant sounds, one after another, are all over the first stanza in the poem. Examples include "look little low", "when weeks, in wheels", and "hear him". This has the effect of making the descriptions of spring interconnect and flow. Due to the alliteration and imagery, spring comes off as exciting and rich. The second half of the poem, however, doesn't describe all of the different sights, noises, and touches of spring. Instead, it talks about spring's innocence and how it will most likely be ruined- "before it cloy, before it cloud." What is it that clouds spring's freshness? Is it the summer's heat, changing of the leaves, the growing of the newborn animals? I think it's a little bit of everything. However, this poem perfectly captures the sweet innocence that spring brings to the world every year.