Analysis of Heat

Hilda Doolittle 1886 (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) – 1961 (Zurich)



O wind, rend open the heat,
cut apart the heat,
rend it to tatters.

Fruit cannot drop
through this thick air--
fruit cannot fall into heat
that presses up and blunts
the points of pears
and rounds the grapes.

Cut the heat--
plough through it,
turning it on either side
of your path.


Scheme AAX XXAXXX AXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111001 10101 11110 1101 1111 1101011 110101 0111 0101 101 111 1011101 111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 278
Words 55
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 6, 4
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 73
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 11, 2023

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Hilda Doolittle

Hilda Doolittle was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist, associated with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets, including Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. She published under the pen name H. D. Hilda was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1886, and grew up just outside Philadelphia in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, and attended Bryn Mawr College. She moved to London in 1911, where she played a central role within the then-emerging Imagist movement. Young and charismatic, she was championed by the modernist poet Ezra Pound, who was instrumental in building her career. From 1916–17, she acted as the literary editor of the Egoist journal, while her poetry appeared in the English Review and the Transatlantic Review.  more…

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