Analysis of O Wind, Why Do You Never Rest
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
O wind, why do you never rest
Wandering, whistling to and fro,
Bringing rain out of the west,
From the dim north bringing snow?
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111101 10010101 1011101 1011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 135 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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