Analysis of Before Winter
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
The wind is crying in the night,
Like a lost child;
The waves break wonderful and white
And wild.
The drenched sea-poppies swoon along
The drenched sea-wall,
And there's an end of summer and of song -
An end of all.
The fingers of the tortured boughs
Gripped by the blast
Clutch at the windows of your house
Closed fast.
And the lost child of love, despair,
Cries in the night,
Remembering how once those windows were
Open and bright.
Scheme | ABABCDCD XEXEXAXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110001 1011 01110001 01 01110101 0111 0111110011 1111 01010101 1101 11010111 11 00111101 1001 0100111100 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 427 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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