Analysis of Bleak Weather

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919



Dear Love, where the red lilies blossomed and grew

The white snows are falling;

And all through the woods where I wandered with you

The loud winds are calling;

And the robin that piped to us tune upon tune,

Neath the oak, you remember,

O'er hill-top and forest has followed the June

And left us December.

He has left like a friend who is true in the sun

And false in the shadows;

He has found new delights in the land where he's gone,

Greener woodlands and meadows.

Let him go! what care we? let the snow shroud the lea,

Let it drift on the heather;

We can sing through it all: I have you, you have me.

And we'll laugh at the weather.

The old year may die and a new year be born

That is bleaker and colder:

It cannot dismay us; we dare it, we scorn,

For our love makes us bolder.

Ah, Robin! sing loud on your far distant lea,

You friend in fair weather!

But here is a song sung that's fuller of glee,

By two warm hearts together.


Scheme A B A B C D C D X E X E F D F D G D G D F D F D
Poetic Form
Metre 11101101001 011110 01101111011 011110 001011111011 1011010 101101011001 011010 111101111001 01001 111101001111 10101 111111101101 1111010 111111111111 0111010 01111001111 1110010 11001111111 11011110 11011111101 110110 11101111011 1111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 914
Words 186
Sentences 11
Stanzas 24
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 30
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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