The tongue practically trips over itself when reading the title aloud, abandoning the rules of grammar. The first stanza is hectic and cramped, with words

The second and fourth stanzas reaffirm the image of spring's perhaps hand as that of a mother. The second stanza, "changing everything carefully", and the fourth, "without breaking anything" perfectly describe the motions of a mother's hand, and its svelte consistency. When has mother ever tipped over and shattered her own porcelain bowl? Never. Mother's hand may seem spastic in her spring cleaning, but every minor movement is deliberate and with purpose. Just as the living room is transformed within a couple hours by mother, the spring landscape changes from winter to summer.

In the third stanza, aspects of nature are associated with the "perhaps Hand". "spring is like a perhaps Hand...(carefully to and fro moving New and Old things...moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there)". This emphasizes the theme of spring in the poem. In the sp

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Approximate Word count = 587
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)