Analysis of Winddrift
R. Christopher Eng 1941 (St. Paul)
When the leaves of color rustle there
Shifting winds blow through on a dare
Brightly nightly morning I sightly see
Leaves me breathless yet calm I be
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 101110101 10111101 101010111 11101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 149 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Somewhere it has exited the backdoor of my mind
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