Past days of gales
Philip Larkin 1922 (Coventry) – 1985 (Hull)
Past days of gales
When skies are colourless
The corn falls,
Dies; so for this space
Autumn is motionless.
Because the sun
So hesitates in this decay,
I think we still could turn,
Speak to each other in a different way;
For ways of speaking die,
And yet the sun pardons our voices still,
And berries in the hedge
Through all the nights of rain have come to the full,
And death seems like long hills, a range
We ride each day towards, and never reach.
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Submitted by RobertHaigh on June 26, 2020
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 436 |
Words | 86 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
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