Analysis of Improvisations: Light And Snow: 10
Conrad Potter Aiken 1889 (Savannah, Georgia) – 1973 (Savannah, Georgia)
It is night time, and cold, and snow is falling,
And no wind grieves the walls.
In the small world of light around the arc-lamp
A swarm of snowflakes falls and falls.
The street grows silent. The last stranger passes.
The sound of his feet, in the snow, is indistinct.
What forgotten sadness is it, on a night like this,
Takes possession of my heart?
Why do I think of a camellia tree in a southern garden,
With pink blossoms among dark leaves,
Standing, surprised, in the snow?
Why do I think of spring?
The snowflakes, helplessly veering,,
Fall silently past my window;
They come from darkness and enter darkness.
What is it in my heart is surprised and bewildered
Like that camellia tree,
Beautiful still in its glittering anguish?
And spring so far away!
Scheme | ABCBDEFGHIJAAJKLMNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101110 011101 00111101011 0111101 01110011010 011110011001 1010101110111 1010111 11111011001010 11100111 1001001 111111 0110010 11001110 1111001010 1110111010010 1111 10010110010 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 748 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 596 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 135 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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