Analysis of Night and Wind
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
The night is light and chill,
Stars are awake in the sky,
There's a cloud over the moon;
Round the house on the hill
The wind creeps with its cry
Between a wail and a croon.
I hear the voice of the wind,
The voice of the wind in the night,
Cry and sob and weep,
As the voice of one that hath sinned
Moaning aloud in its might
In the night when he cannot sleep.
Sleep? No sleep is about.
What remembering sin
Wakes and watches apart?...
The wind wails without,
And my heart is wailing within,
And the wind is the voice of my heart.
Scheme | ABCABC XDEXDE FGHFGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101 1101001 1011001 101101 011111 0101001 1101101 01101001 10101 10111111 1001011 00111101 111101 101001 101001 01101 01111001 001101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 523 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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