Analysis of Gathering Wood
Philip Larkin 1922 (Coventry) – 1985 (Hull)
On short, still days
At the shut of the year
We search the pathways
Where the coverts were.
For kindling-wood we come,
And make up bundles,
Carrying them home
Down long low tunnels.
Soon air-frosts haze
Snow-thickened shires;
O short, still days!
O burrow fires!
| Scheme | AXAX XBXB AXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 1111 101101 1101 1010 110111 01110 10011 11110 1111 1101 1111 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 251 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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