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• An expatriate longs for the English spring

Form

• 2 verses, 8 and 12 lines
• Has a Romantic intensity and diction
  • O, to be in England, etc
  • “recapture / The first fine careless rapture!”
• First first rolls around, playing with iambic pentameter, tetrameter: always running around tetrameter, very coy
  • Shows much flexibility: a very nice example of how Victorian poetry isn’t necessarily neo-Classical in a literal sense