Analysis of March Evening
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
Blue through the window burns the twilight;
Heavy, through trees, blows the warm south wind.
Glistening, against the chill, gray sky light,
Wet, black branches are barred and entwined.
Sodden and spongy, the scarce-green grass plot
Dents into pools where a foot has been.
Puddles lie spilt in the road a mass, not
Of water, but steel, with its cold, hard sheen.
Faint fades the fire on the hearth, its embers
Scattering wide at a stronger gust.
Above, the old weathercock groans, but remembers
Creaking, to turn, in its centuried rust.
Dying, forlorn, in dreary sorrow,
Wrapping the mists round her withering form,
Day sinks down; and in darkness to-morrow
Travails to birth in the womb of the storm.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11010101 101110111 1000101111 111011001 1001001111 101110111 1011001011 1101111111 11010101110 100110101 0101111010 10110111 100101010 1001101001 1110010110 0111001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 708 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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