“There were strange, rare odors abroad—a tangle of the sea smell and of weeds and damp, new-plowed earth, mingled with the heavy perfume of a field of white blossoms somewhere near.”

The Awakening, Kate Chopin (1899)

“I heard the rain still beating continuously on the staircase window, and the wind howling in the grove behind the hall.

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (1847).

Maria's nails were long, but they were not painted. And a small dimple appeared momently high on her right cheek.

How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife ( Arguilla )

“It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped,

And whirr when it stood still.

I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will.”

(“The Marvelous Toy” by Tom Paxton)

“...Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze…”

(“Daffodils by William Wordsworth)

“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,

The furrow followed free;

We were the first that ever burst

Into that silent sea.”

(The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

“A Quietness distilled

As Twilight long begun,

Or Nature spending with herself

Sequestered Afternoon–“

(As imperceptibly as Grief by Emily Dickinson)

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that defines the rhythm of some poetry

A basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables

A four line stanzas of any kind, rhymed, metered, or otherwise.

"The passing spring

Birds mourn,

Fishes weep

With tearful eyes."

by Matsuo Basho

The "spring" in poem symbolizes...