Analysis of Who Has Seen the Wind?
Christina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you.
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I.
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
| Scheme | AbcbAded |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 10111 11011100 011101 11101 10111 11011111 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 206 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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