Analysis of A Winter Day
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
The air is silent save where stirs
A bugling breeze among the firs;
The virgin world in white array
Waits for the bridegroom kiss of day;
All heaven blooms rarely in the east
Where skies are silvery and fleeced,
And o'er the orient hills made glad
The morning comes in wonder clad;
Oh, 'tis a time most fit to see
How beautiful the dawn can be!
Wide, sparkling fields snow-vestured lie
Beneath a blue, unshadowed sky;
A glistening splendor crowns the woods
And bosky, whistling solitudes;
In hemlock glen and reedy mere
The tang of frost is sharp and clear;
Life hath a jollity and zest,
A poignancy made manifest;
Laughter and courage have their way
At noontide of a winter's day.
Faint music rings in wold and dell,
The tinkling of a distant bell,
Where homestead lights with friendly glow
Glimmer across the drifted snow;
Beyond a valley dim and far
Lit by an occidental star,
Tall pines the marge of day beset
Like many a slender minaret,
Whence priest-like winds on crystal air
Summon the reverent world to prayer.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEE FFXAGGHHBB IIJJKKLLMM |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01110111 010010101 01010101 1101111 110110001 11110001 010010111 01010101 11011111 11000111 1101111 010111 010010101 01101 0110101 01111101 110101 0100110 10010111 1110101 11010101 010010101 1111101 10010101 01010101 1110101 11011101 11001001 11111101 100100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,034 |
Words | 186 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 271 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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