Analysis of Winter Song
Wilfred Owen 1893 (Oswestry) – 1918 (Sambre–Oise Canal)
The browns, the olives, and the yellows died,
And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed
Each dawn and set of sun till Christmastide,
And when the land lay pale for them, pale-snowed,
Fell back, and down the snow-drifts flamed and flowed.
From off your face, into the winds of winter,
The sun-brown and the summer-gold are blowing;
But they shall gleam with spiritual glinter,
When paler beauty on your brows falls snowing,
And through those snows my looks shall be soft-going.
Scheme | ABABB CDCDD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 0101000101 0011110111 11011111 0101111111 1101011101 11110101110 01100101110 1111110001 1110111110 01111111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 480 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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