Analysis of North Wind in October
Robert Seymour Bridges 1844 (Walmer, Kent) – 1930 (Boars Hill, Berkshire)
In the golden glade the chestnuts are fallen all;
From the sered boughs of the oak the acorns fall:
The beech scatters her ruddy fire;
The lime hath stripped to the cold,
And standeth naked above her yellow attire:
The larch thinneth her spire
To lay the ways of the wood with cloth of gold.
Out of the golden-green and white Of the brake the fir-trees stand upright
In the forest of flame, and wave aloft
To the blue of heaven their blue-green tuftings soft.
But swiftly in shuddering gloom the splendours fail,
As the harrying North-wind beareth
A cloud of skirmishing hail
The grieved woodland to smite:
In a hurricane through the trees he teareth,
Raking the boughs and the leaves rending,
And whistleth to the descending
Blows of his icy flail.
Gold and snow he mixeth in spite,
And whirleth afar; as away on his winnowing flight
He passeth, and all again for ahile is bright.
Scheme | AABCBXC DXX EFECFGGEDDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001010101101 10111010101 01101010 0111101 011001010010 01101 11011011111 11010101101011101 0010110101 10111011111 11001001011 101111 0111001 01111 001010111 100100110 0110010 111101 1011101 010110111101 1101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 869 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 3, 11 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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