Analysis of A Winter Landscape
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
All night, all day, in dizzy, downward flight,
Fell the wild-whirling, vague, chaotic snow,
Till every landmark of the earth below,
Trees, moorlands, roads, and each familiar sight
Were blotted out by the bewildering white.
And winds, now shrieking loud, now whimpering low,
Seemed lamentations for the world-old woe
That death must swallow life, and darkness light.
But all at once the rack was blown away,
The snowstorm hushing ended in a sigh;
Then like a flame the crescent moon on high
Leaped forth among the planets; pure as they,
Earth vied in whiteness with the Milky Way:
Herself a star beneath the starry sky.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDDCCD |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet |
Metre | 1111010101 1011010101 1100110101 111010101 01011001001 01110111001 1110111 1111010101 1111011101 01110001 1101010111 1101010111 1101010101 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 627 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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