Analysis of January Cold Desolate
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
January cold desolate;
February all dripping wet;
March wind ranges;
April changes;
Birds sing in tune
To flowers of May,
And sunny June
Brings longest day;
In scorched July
The storm-clouds fly
Lightning-torn;
August bears corn,
September fruit;
In rough October
Earth must disrobe her;
Stars fall and shoot
In keen November;
And night is long
And cold is strong
In bleak December.
Scheme | ABCCDEDEFFGGHIIHIJJI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 1001100 1001101 1110 1010 1101 11011 0101 1101 011 0111 101 1011 0101 01010 1110 1101 01010 0111 0111 01010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 390 |
Words | 65 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 306 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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