Analysis of No Songs in Winter
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
The sky is gray as gray may be,
There is no bird upon the bough,
There is no leaf on vine or tree.
In the Neponset marshes now
Willow-stems, rosy in the wind,
Shiver with hidden sense of snow.
So too 't is winter in my mind,
No light-winged fancy comes and stays:
A season churlish and unkind.
Slow creep the hours, slow creep the days,
The black ink crusts upon the pen--
Just wait till bluebirds, wrens, and jays
And golden orioles come again!
Scheme | ABA BCX CDC DEDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111111 11110101 11111111 00010101 1110001 10110111 111110011 11110101 01010001 110101101 01110101 1111101 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 450 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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