Analysis of Wedding Wind
Philip Larkin 1922 (Coventry) – 1985 (Hull)
The wind blew all my wedding-day,
And my wedding-night was the night of the high wind;
And a stable door was banging, again and again,
That he must go and shut it, leaving me
Stupid in candlelight, hearing rain,
Seeing my face in the twisted candlestick,
Yet seeing nothing. When he came back
He said the horses were restless, and I was sad
That any man or beast that night should lack
The happiness I had.
Now in the day
All's ravelled under the sun by the wind's blowing.
He has gone to look at the floods, and I
Carry a chipped pail to the chicken-run,
Set it down, and stare. All is the wind
Hunting through clouds and forests, thrashing
My apron and the hanging cloths on the line.
Can it be borne, this bodying-forth by wind
Of joy my actions turn on, like a thread
Carrying beads? Shall I be let to sleep
Now this perpetual morning shares my bed?
Can even death dry up
These new delighted lakes, conclude
Our kneeling as cattle by all-generous waters?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101 011011011011 0010111001001 1111011101 10010101 1011001010 110101111 110100100111 1101111111 010011 1001 11100110110 1111110101 1001110101 111011101 101101010 11000101101 111111111 1111011101 1001111111 11010010111 110111 11010101 10101101110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 935 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 14 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 375 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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