Analysis of Sorley’s Weather
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
When outside the icy rain
Comes leaping helter-skelter,
Shall I tie my restive brain
Snugly under shelter?
Shall I make a gentle song
Here in my firelit study,
When outside the winds blow strong
And the lanes are muddy?
With old wine and drowsy meats
Am I to fill my belly?
Shall I glutton here with Keats?
Shall I drink with Shelley?
Tobacco’s pleasant, firelight’s good:
Poetry makes both better.
Clay is wet and so is mud,
Winter rains are wetter.
Yet rest there, Shelley, on the sill,
For though the winds come frorely,
I’m away to the rain-blown hill
And the ghost of Sorley.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EDED XBXB FFFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1110101 1101010 1111101 101010 1110101 101110 1110111 001110 1110101 1111110 111111 111110 011011 1001110 1110111 101110 11110101 110111 10110111 00111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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