Analysis of There Is a Solemn Wind Tonight

Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)



There is a solemn wind to-night
That sings of solemn rain;
The trees that have been quiet so long
Flutter and start again.

The slender trees, the heavy trees,
The fruit trees laden and proud,
Lift up their branches to the wind
That cries to them so loud.

The little bushes and the plants
Bow to the solemn sound,
And every tiniest blade of grass
Shakes on the quiet ground.


Scheme XXXX XAXA XBXB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 11010111 111101 011111011 100101 01010101 0111001 11110101 111111 01010001 110101 0100100111 110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 370
Words 72
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 24, 2023

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Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. more…

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