Analysis of The Melancholy Year Is Dead with Rain
Trumbull Stickney 1874 (Geneva) – 1904
The melancholy year is dead with rain.
Drop after drop on every branch pursues.
From far away beyond the drizzled flues
A twilight saddens to the window pane.
And dimly thro' the chambers of the brain,
From place to place and gently touching, moves
My one and irrecoverable love's
Dear and lost shape one other time again.
So in the last of autumn for a day
Summer or summer's memory returns.
So in a mountain desolation burns
Some rich belated flower, and with the gray
Sick weather, in the world of rotting ferns
From out the dreadful stones it dies away.
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Metre | 010011111 11011100101 110101011 011010101 0101010101 1111010101 11011 1011110101 1001110101 1011010001 100100101 11010100101 1100011101 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 444 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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