What is the analysis of spring by William Shakespeare?

Answer 1

Do you mean this:

When daisies pied, and violets blue,

And lady-smocks all silver-white,

And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue

Do paint the meadows with delight,

The cuckoo then, on every tree,

Mocks married men, for thus sings he:

'Cuckoo!

Cuckoo, cuckoo!' O word of fear,

Unpleasing to a married ear.

When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,

And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks,

When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws,

And maidens bleach their summer smocks,

The cuckoo then, on every tree,

Mocks married men, for thus sings he:

'Cuckoo!

Cuckoo, cuckoo!' O word of fear,

Unpleasing to a married ear.

It's not a poem, but in fact one verse of a song sung at the end of the play Love's Labour's Lost by all the idiots, clowns and goofballs in the play. It is, therefore, intended to be comic and not taken seriously. It's simple-minded theme is essentially a pun on the cuckoo (a bird) and the word cuckold (a man whose wife is cheating on him, hence a word of fear to married men).

The second verse (called "Winter") is even sillier:

When icicles hang by the wall

And Dick the shepherd blows his nail

And Tom bears logs into the hall

And milk comes frozen home in pail,

When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul,

Then nightly sings the staring owl, . Tu-whit;

Tu-who, a merry note,

While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

When all aloud the wind doth blow

And coughing drowns the parson's saw

And birds sit brooding in the snow

And Marian's nose looks red and raw,

When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,

Then nightly sings the staring owl, . Tu-whit;

Tu-who, a merry note,

While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.