Analysis of White Fields
James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950
In the winter time we go
Walking in the fields of snow;
Where there is no grass at all;
Where the top of every wall,
Every fence, and every tree,
Is as white as white can be.
Pointing out the way we came,
-Every one of them the same-
All across the fields there be
Prints in silver filigree;
And our mothers always know,
By the footprints in the snow,
Where it is the children go.
Scheme | AA BB CC DD CC AA A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010111 1000111 1111111 10111001 100101001 1111111 1010111 10011101 1010111 101010 0101011 101001 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 379 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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