Analysis of A Calendar of Sonnets: October
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)
The month of carnival of all the year,
When Nature lets the wild earth go its way,
And spend whole seasons on a single day.
The spring-time holds her white and purple dear;
October, lavish, flaunts them far and near;
The summer charily her reds doth lay
Like jewels on her costliest array;
October, scornful, burns them on a bier.
The winter hoards his pearls of frost in sign
Of kingdom: whiter pearls than winter knew,
Oar empress wore, in Egypt's ancient line,
October, feasting 'neath her dome of blue,
Drinks at a single draught, slow filtered through
Sunshiny air, as in a tingling wine!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111001101 1101011111 0111010101 0111010101 0101011101 01010111 1101010001 0101011101 0101111101 1101011101 1101010101 0101010111 1101011101 1011001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 601 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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