Analysis of At Night

Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)



The wind is singing through the trees to-night,
A deep-voiced song of rushing cadences
And crashing intervals. No summer breeze
Is this, though hot July is at its height,
Gone is her gentler music; with delight
She listens to this booming like the seas,
These elemental, loud necessities
Which call to her to answer their swift might.
Above the tossing trees shines down a star,
Quietly bright; this wild, tumultuous joy
Quickens nor dims its splendour. And my mind,
O Star! is filled with your white light, from far,
So suffer me this one night to enjoy
The freedom of the onward sweeping wind.


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Poetic Form
Metre 0111010111 0111110100 0101001101 111111111 1101010101 1101110101 101010100 1110110111 0101011101 1001111001 101111011 1111111111 1101111101 0101010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 603
Words 106
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 473
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Amy Lowell

Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. more…

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