Analysis of A Journey To Find Winter



Down and through a whitened wood,
Across where Mother Nature stood,
As we balance feet on frozen streams
And white blankets cover floral dreams:
Our necks can scarce remember
The gleam of late September:
Skin tightens now in shivers, quick
As an icy glance from a slick
Mistress; Winter – now you’re here
To queen it, though you’d liefer disappear.
We surrender flowers – you turn your nose,
With a screaming wind that knows
We recked not of that poison
Turns you to flight, makes moisten
The soil for life, the ground,
For fragrance fresh, new bluebells’ sound:
We thought of you, of Winter, long ago,
In the greenwood walk, where secrets never show.


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Poetic Form
Metre 101011 01110101 111011101 011010101 10111010 0111010 11010101 11101101 1010111 111111001 1010101111 1010111 1111110 1111110 011101 1101111 1111110101 0011110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 644
Words 114
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 514
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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