Analysis of A Winter Night.
John Milton Hay 1838 (Salem, Indiana) – 1905 ( Newbury, New Hampshire)
The winter wind is raving fierce and shrill,
And chides with angry moan the frosty skies;
The white stars gaze with sleepless Gorgon eyes
That freeze the earth in terror fixed and still.
We reck not of the wild night's gloom and chill,
Housed from its rage, dear friend; and fancy flies,
Lured by the hand of beckoning memories,
Back to those summer evenings on the hill
Where we together watched the sun go down
Beyond the gold-washed uplands, while his fires
Touched into glittering life the vanes and spires
Piercing the purpling mists that veiled the town.
The wintry night thy voice and eyes beguile,
Till wake the sleeping summers in thy smile.
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Metre | 0101110101 0111010101 0111110101 1101010101 1111011101 1111110101 11011100100 1111010101 1101010111 01011101110 10110010101 100111101 0101110101 1101010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 523 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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