Analysis of My Comrade
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
Out from my window westward
I turn full oft my face;
But the mountains rebuke the vision
That would encompass space;
They lift their lofty foreheads
To the kiss of the clouds above,
And ask, "With all our glory,
Can we not win your love?"
I answer, "No, oh mountains!
I see that you are grand;
But you have not the breadth and beauty
Of the fields in my own land;
You narrow my range of vision
And you even shut from me
The voice of my old comrade,
The West Wind wild and free."
But to-day I climbed the mountains
On the back of a snow-white steed,
And the West Wind came to greet me--
He flew on the wings of speed.
His charger, and mine that bore me,
Went gaily neck to neck,
Till the town in the valley belkow us
Looked like a small, dark speck.
And oh! what tales he whispered
As he rode there by me,
Of friends whose smiling faces
I am so soon to see.
And the mountains frowned in anger,
Because I balked their spite,
And met my old-time comrade
There on their very height;
But I laughed up in their faces,
As I rode slowly back,
While the Wind went faster and faster,
Like a race-horse on the track.
Scheme | ABCBXDED FGEGCEHE FIEIEJXJ AEKELMHM KNLN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 111111 101001010 110101 111101 10110101 01111010 111111 1101110 111111 111101010 1010111 11011110 0110111 011111 011101 11111010 10110111 00111111 1110111 11001111 110111 101001011 110111 0111110 111111 1111010 111111 00101010 011111 011111 111101 11110110 111101 101110010 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,109 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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