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
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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Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. more…

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