In the last couple of lines of the stanza, the persona expresses a sense of longing and questioning and wonders about the absence of the anticipated summer, suggesting that this unconventional midwinter spring exists beyond the realm of imagination and comprehension.

The hedgerow is blossomed with snow (allusion to flowers blossoming). Image of life still covered, however it should change soon, even though the words here are again mentioning how far away it seems.

Again the introduction of the mid-season. It is almost spring, just not yet.

Here there is another mention of a sense, we got the sight, perhaps the hearing, and now the smell. In this mid-season there is no other sensation than this blinding light. There is no other living smell due to the winter.

"The soul's sap quivers" metaphorically conveys the delicate and precarious state of existence during this season. It highlights the fluctuations between life and stillness, capturing the essence of this unconventional spring. This sentence is the first of another part of the stanza which has a different structure, which is marked by the punctuation in the middle of the line and then followed up byt a capital conjunction in the begginig of the next line. It ends with the line "But not in time's covenant." This again creates a change of tempo, pulsing with every conjunction.

Winter, or the dark time of the year is nearly over, which is with finalized with a dot; the first case of punctuation in the poem. The dot is visually pointing to this singular point in the time, which is between the melting (spring/life) and freezing (winter/death).

In line 11, there is the mention of “the dumb spirit,” who, in the Bible, is addressed as “dumb and deaf spirit.” The absence of “deaf” might be intentional to highlight the blinding aspect in the previous lines which would add to the paralyzing atmosphere of the poem. Then there is a repetition of the mention of the windless atmosphere, leaving no other element but fire (and water which only signifies its glare), which together create this blinding holy light.

The poem is written in a free verse.

The blinding glare is truly extremely bright, which is highlighted in these lines. Then we get the allteration of b: "blaze of branch, or brazier" which is connecting the words describing a fire. No fire, natural (branch), nor humanmade "brazier" is more blinding then the light that we get from the sun. The sun's light may also be viewed as the holy light, bringing life and bigger then anything terrestrial.

The winter was cold and long, however finally, the sun is coming, bringing life and hope. Alliteration of the letter h, showing how the life and heat are forever intertwined.

Sun in the cold ice. Again the image of life/death.

Again there are more of those contrasting words: here there are "pond and ditches", together with the previously mentioned words and "pole and tropic" in l. 3, they are all creating this theme of the inbetween. In this line we are also introduced to an aspect that is coming in this season and that is the sun that "flames the ice". We get to witness the blinding light that is reflecting off of the ice. The following lines are all talking about this light.

There are several cases of alliteration of the "s" sound. There is spring, season, sempiternal, and finally sodden. This creates an audible pulse to the text which is might refer to the pulsing of the beating heart which would correlate to the rebirth theme of the poem. There are again interesting contrasting words put in a juxtaposition: sempiternal and sodden in line 2. This is to highlight the slow tempo of the incoming spring as the winter seemed eternal and so the change is very slow but highly anticipated. Then there is also frost and fire which are describing the two opposite seasons, which makes the poetic persona thinking that they are "suspended in time". The lines 2-5 have all the metre of 11 syllables, thus connecting them as a descripting part of this new season.

Introduction of a new type of season, called the "Midwinter spring". The juxtaposition of the two contrary season is capturing the rebirth of life that is coming with the finishing winter. The metre is 9.

I guess "Green people" refers to plants