Analysis of The Wind

Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)



He shouts in the sails of the ships at sea,
He steals the down from the honeybee,
He makes the forest trees rustle and sing,
He twirls my kite till it breaks its string.
Laughing, dancing, sunny wind,
Whistling, howling, rainy wind,
North, South, East and West,
Each is the wind I like the best.
He calls up the fog and hides the hills,
He whirls the wings of the great windmills,
The weathercocks love him and turn to discover
His whereabouts -- but he's gone, the rover!
Laughing, dancing, sunny wind,
Whistling, howling, rainy wind,
North, South, East and West,
Each is the wind I like the best.

The pine trees toss him their cones with glee,
The flowers bend low in courtesy,
Each wave flings up a shower of pearls,
The flag in front of the school unfurls.
Laughing, dancing, sunny wind,
Whistling, howling, rainy wind,
North, South, East and West,
Each is the wind I like the best.


Scheme aabbCCDDeeffCCDD aaxaCCDD
Poetic Form
Metre 1100110111 11011010 1101011001 111111111 1010101 1010101 11101 11011101 111010101 11011011 0111011010 110111010 1010101 1010101 11101 11011101 011111111 010110100 111101011 01011011 1010101 1010101 11101 11011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 894
Words 163
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 16, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 341
Words per stanza (avg) 81
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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Amy Lowell

Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. more…

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