Analysis of Cold Day
Thistle down and mist
shrouded a valley
a chill November dusk --
a moon loomed over,
everything in halos
of pale, cold light:
no Indian Summer this...
Late geese flew, high up;
damp leaves burned slow
in an orange fire
whose smoke wraithed
straight up, in a column,
to the sky.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIDAJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 10010 010101 01110 10010 1111 1100101 11111 1111 011010 111 110010 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 265 |
Words | 51 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 214 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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