Analysis of Winds of Wrath
Gamaliel Bradford 1863 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1932
Silly little bird,
Singing of its love,
Sang and never heard
Winds of wrath above.
Winds of wrath came down,
Tossed the world about.
Bird and song were gone
When the stars came out.
| Scheme | ABAB XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 10101 10111 10101 11101 11111 10101 10101 10111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 182 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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