Analysis of Winter Remembered
John Crowe Ransom 1888 (Pulaski) – 1974 (Gambier)
Two evils, monstrous either one apart,
Possessed me, and were long and loath at going:
A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart,
And in the wood the furious winter blowing.
Think not, when fire was bright upon my bricks,
And past the tight boards hardly a wind could enter,
I glowed like them, the simple burning sticks,
Far from my cause, my proper heat and center.
Better to walk forth in the frozen air
And wash my wound in the snows; that would be healing;
Because my heart would throb less painful there,
Being caked with cold, and past the smart of feeling.
And where I walked, the murderous winter blast
Would have this body bowed, these eyeballs streaming,
And though I think this heart's blood froze not fast
It ran too small to spare one drop for dreaming.
Dear love, these fingers that had known your touch,
And tied our separate forces first together,
Were ten poor idiot fingers not worth much,
Ten frozen parsnips hanging in the weather.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EBEB FBFB GDGD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101010101 01100101110 0111010001 000101001010 11110110111 010111001110 1111010101 11111101010 1011100101 011100111110 0111111101 101110101110 01110100101 1111011110 0111111111 11111111110 1111011111 011010101010 01110010111 1101100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 939 |
Words | 173 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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