Analysis of February
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
THE trees stand brown against the gray,
The shivering gray of field and sky;
The mists wrapt round the dying day
The shroud poor days wear as they die:
Poor day, die soon, who lived in vain,
Who could not bring my Love again!
Down in the garden breezes cold
Dead rustling stalks blow chill between;
Only, above the sodden mould,
The wallflower wears his heartless green
As though still reigned the rose-crowned year
And summer and my Love were here.
The mists creep close about the house,
The empty house, all still and chill;
The desolate and trembling boughs
Scratch at the dripping window sill:
Poor day lies drowned in floods of rain,
And ghosts knock at the window pane.
Scheme | ABABCX DEDEXX XFXFCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101 010011101 01110101 01111111 11111101 11111101 10010101 11011101 10010101 01011101 11110111 01001101 01110101 01011101 010001001 11010101 11110111 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 683 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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