Analysis of Winter Sunset
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
Roses in the sky,
Roses in the sea
Bowers of scarlet sky-roses
Take my heart and me.
God was good to make,
This December weather,
All this sky a rose-garden,
Rose and fire together.
To the East are burning
Roses in a garden,
Roses in a rosy field,
Hesper for their warden.
Yonder to the West
Roses all afire,
Mirror now some rare splendid
Rose of their desire.
Pulsing deeper, deeper,
Waves of fire throb on,
Never were such red roses
At sunset or dawn.
Roses on the hills,
Roses in the hollow,
Roses on the wet hedges,
In the shining fallow.
West wind, blow and blow!
That has blown ajar
Gates of God's great rose-garden,
Where His Angels are,
Gathering up the rose-leaves
For a shower of roses
On the night the Lord Babe
His sweet eye uncloses.
All the sky is scarlet
Flaming on the azure.
O, there's fire in Heaven
My heart aches with pleasure.
Leagues of rose and scarlet,
Roses red as blood:
All the world's a rose-garden.
God is good, is good.
Scheme | XABA XCDC XDXD XXEC CXBX XFBF FGDG XBXA HCDC HEDX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (30%) Tetractys (23%) |
Metre | 10001 10001 10110110 11101 11111 101010 1110110 1010010 101110 100010 1000101 101110 10101 10101 1011110 111010 101010 111011 1001110 1111 10101 100010 1010110 00101 11101 11101 1111110 11101 1001011 1010110 101011 1111 101110 101010 1110010 111110 111010 10111 1010110 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 918 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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