Analysis of Night Winds

Joseph Seamon Cotter 1861 (Louisville) – 1949



The slender moon in its silvery sheen,
The golden stars with the blue between
Of a dreamy, summer sky;
And still the night winds sigh.

With the silvery moon to whisper to,
And the golden stars to kiss, mid the blue
Of a listening, summer sky,
For what should the night winds sigh?


Scheme AABB CCBB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 0101011001 010110101 1010101 010111 1010011101 0010111101 10100101 1110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 287
Words 55
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 110
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Joseph Seamon Cotter

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. was an American playwright, author and poet from Louisville, Kentucky most remembered for his posthumously published one-act play On The Fields of France in addition to numerous volumes of poetry. more…

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