What other Climax is found in the poem besides the Climax of feeling?
FAR, LAUGH, BRANCH, GLAD. (Appendix [A, 1.])
BREEZES STIRRED. (Appendix [A, 6.])
What is the Inflection on ll. 1-6 of stanza i and iii? (Introduction, p. [17].) How does the Pitch of these lines differ from that of ll. 7 and 8 of these stanzas? Account for the change. (Introduction, p. [23].)
What are the contrasting words in l. 6, stanza i?
Note the Grouping and Pause in ll. 3 and 4, stanza iii.
THE PASTURE FIELD
When spring has burned The ragged robe of winter, stitch by stitch, And deftly turned To moving melody the wayside ditch, The pale-green pasture field behind the bars5 Is goldened o'er with dandelion stars. When summer keeps Quick pace with sinewy white-shirted arms, And daily steeps In sunny splendour all her spreading farms,10 The pasture field is flooded foamy white With daisy faces looking at the light.
When autumn lays Her golden wealth upon the forest floor, And all the days15 Look backward at the days that went before, A pensive company, the asters, stand, Their blue eyes brightening the pasture land.
When winter lifts A sounding trumpet to his strenuous lips,20 And shapes the drifts To curves of transient loveliness, he slips Upon the pasture's ineffectual brown A swan-soft vestment delicate as down.
—Ethelwyn Wetherald (By permission)