Analysis of Winter
John Le Gay Brereton 1871 (Sydney) – 1933
When winter chills your aged bones
As by the fire you sit and nod,
You'll hear a passing wind that moans,
And think of one beneath the sod.
You'll feebly sleek your hair of grey,
And mutter words that none may know,
And dream you touch the sodden clay
That laps the dream of long ago.
The shrinking ash may fall apart
And show a gleam that lingers yet.
A moment in your cooling heart
May shine a sparkle of regret.
And where the pit is chill and deep,
And bones are mouldering in the clay,
A thrill of buried love will creep
And shudder aimlessly away.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GCGC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101111 110101101 11010111 01110101 11011111 01011111 01110101 11011101 01011101 01011101 01001101 11010101 01011101 0111001 01110111 01010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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