Analysis of Hark To The Shouting Wind

Henry Timrod 1828 (Charleston) – 1867 (Columbia)



Hark to the shouting Wind!
Hark to the flying Rain!
And I care not though I never see
A bright blue sky again.

There are thoughts in my breast to-day
That are not for human speech;
But I hear them in the driving storm,
And the roar upon the beach.

And oh, to be with that ship
That I watch through the blinding brine!
O Wind! for thy sweep of land and sea!
O Sea! for a voice like thine!

Shout on, thou pitiless Wind,
To the frightened and flying Rain!
I care not though I never see
A calm blue sky again.


Scheme ABCD XEXE XFCF ABCD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 110101 110101 011111101 011101 11101111 1111101 111100101 0010101 0111111 11110101 111111101 1110111 1111001 10100101 11111101 011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 498
Words 105
Sentences 12
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry Timrod

Henry Timrod was an American poet, often called the poet laureate of the Confederacy. more…

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