Analysis of A Calendar of Sonnets: November
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)
This is the treacherous month when autumn days
With summer's voice come bearing summer's gifts.
Beguiled, the pale down-trodden aster lifts
Her head and blooms again. The soft, warm haze
Makes moist once more the sere and dusty ways,
And, creeping through where dead leaves lie in drifts,
The violet returns. Snow noiseless sifts
Ere night, an icy shroud, which morning's rays
Willidly shine upon and slowly melt,
Too late to bid the violet live again.
The treachery, at last, too late, is plain;
Bare are the places where the sweet flowers dwelt.
What joy sufficient hath November felt?
What profit from the violet's day of pain?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010011101 1101110101 0101110101 0101010111 1111010101 0101111101 010001111 1111011101 11010101 11110100101 0100111111 11010101101 1101010101 110101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 500 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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