Analysis of Go Winter!

James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)



Go, Winter! Go thy ways! We want again
The twitter of the bluebird and the wren;
Leaves ever greener growing, and the shine
Of Summer's sun--not thine.--

Thy sun, which mocks our need of warmth and love
And all the heartening fervencies thereof,
It scarce hath heat enow to warm our thin
Pathetic yearnings in.

So get thee from us! We are cold, God wot,
Even as _thou_ art.--We remember not
How blithe we hailed thy coming.--That was O
Too long--too long ago!

Get from us utterly! Ho! Summer then
Shall spread her grasses where thy snows have been,
And thy last icy footprint melt and mold
In her first marigold.


Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF ADEE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 1101111101 010101001 1101010001 110111 11111011101 01010011 1111111101 010100 1111111111 1011110101 1111110111 111101 1111001101 1101011111 011101101 00110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 605
Words 116
Sentences 12
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 118
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 26, 2023

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James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. more…

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