Analysis of A South Wind—has a pathos
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A South Wind—has a pathos
Of individual Voice—
As One detect on Landings
An Emigrant's address.
A Hint of Ports and Peoples—
And much not understood—
The fairer—for the farness—
And for the foreignhood.
| Scheme | AXXX XBAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 0111010 101001 1101110 111 0111010 01101 010101 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 215 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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