Analysis of Woods in Winter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
When winter winds are piercing chill,
And through the hawthorn blows the gale,
With solemn feet I tread the hill,
That overbrows the lonely vale.
O'er the bare upland, and away
Through the long reach of desert woods,
The embracing sunbeams chastely play,
And gladden these deep solitudes.
Where, twisted round the barren oak,
The summer vine in beauty clung,
And summer winds the stillness broke,
The crystal icicle is hung.
Where, from their frozen urns, mute springs
Pour out the river's gradual tide,
Shrilly the skater's iron rings,
And voices fill the woodland side.
Alas! how changed from the fair scene,
When birds sang out their mellow lay,
And winds were soft, and woods were green,
And the song ceased not with the day!
But still wild music is abroad,
Pale, desert woods! within your crowd;
And gathering winds, in hoarse accord,
Amid the vocal reeds pipe loud.
Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear
Has grown familiar with your song;
I hear it in the opening year,
I listen, and it cheers me long.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH ICIC XJXJ XKXK |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011101 0101101 11011101 110101 100110001 10111101 0010111 010111 11010101 01010101 01010101 01010011 11110111 110101001 101101 0101011 01111011 11111101 01010101 00111101 11110101 11010111 010010101 01010111 11010111 11010111 111001001 11001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,015 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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