Analysis of After the Winter
Claude McKay 1889 (Clarendon Parish) – 1948 (Chicago)
Some day, when trees have shed their leaves
And against the morning's white
The shivering birds beneath the eaves
Have sheltered for the night,
We'll turn our faces southward, love,
Toward the summer isle
Where bamboos spire to shafted grove
And wide-mouthed orchids smile.
And we will seek the quiet hill
Where towers the cotton tree,
And leaps the laughing crystal rill,
And works the droning bee.
And we will build a cottage there
Beside an open glade,
With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,
And ferns that never fade.
Scheme | ABABXCXC DEDEXFXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 0010101 010010101 110101 111010101 010101 1111101 011101 01110101 1100101 01010101 010101 01110101 011101 11111101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 519 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 211 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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