Analysis of The Wind That Blows Cold
The wind that blows cold, over all the land,
Takes with it all the sod and the sand;
Leaves nothing but the barren ground,
With nothing around, not even a sound;
Except that of the sweeping gale,
That shoots through valley, and through dale;
To have upon its open home,
The right, and freedom, with which to roam;
God given rights to man, exceed the need,
Of this howling torrent to be freed;
So it takes upon itself the job,
Of cleaning away all the cluttering mob;
Of those who lie, and work and sit,
And cannot seem their minds to quit,
Of the notion, and feeling, they were
The first to be here;
The wind to be heard,
To be seen and felt, but not to be feared.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGXX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111110101 111101001 11010101 1100111001 01110101 11110011 11011101 010101111 1101110101 111010111 111010101 11001101001 11110101 01011111 101001010 01111 01111 1110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 647 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on October 07, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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