9. Which season is the poet talking about in the poem 'Spring has Sprung'?
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Spring Has Sprung, The Grass is Riz
March 20th, 2012
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Jeremy Shatan wrote from New York: "It’s the vernal equinox, the first day of spring. Around this time of the year, my mom would always say: ‘Spring has sprung, the grass is riz, the boid is on the wing.’ Yes, just like that."
This saying is all in "New Yorkese", a New York accent. It seems of course to come from the New York area. Some quote it from Ogden Nash, but from what I can tell looking through some books, this is incorrect.
The saying is sometimes called "The Brooklyn National Anthem" and it dates back to at least 1940. There are many versions of it. Here’s one:
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"Spring has sprung and the grass has riz, I wonder where the flowers is." ... My Dad always recited this poem like this from as far back ... That folk talk diffrint now an' then
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Spring’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins is a fourteen-line poem that conforms to the pattern of an Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet. This means that beyond having fourteen lines, the poem also follows a pattern of ABBAABBA in the first eight lines. This section of the poem is known as the octet. In the second section, known as the sestet, the six lines follow a pattern of CDCDCD. While the sestet is known to vary in Petrarchan sonnets, the pattern Hopkins chose for ‘Spring’ is one of the most traditional.