Analysis of In an Autumn Wild
In an Autumn Wild
I dip my fingers into
A bushel of leaves
Leaves that have
Fallen, for skin too
Heavy with beauty
Their quiet faces
Solemn, gallant as
Their mother tree
Lets go, her children
Growing colder, their
Warmth too bright
For a mother old
For a mother cold
Who sighs, weeps
For love she cannot
Give, wound up in her
Bark imprisoned
By the cold, by
The ceaseless rain, by
An earthen voice
That tells her "sleep"
Though her love for
Her colors burns, they
Fade, those many
Glorious Children
Who in winter's embrace
Do die
Scheme | XAX XAB XXB CXX DDX XXX EEX XXX BCXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101 1111001 01011 111 10111 10110 11010 10101 1101 11010 10101 111 10101 10101 111 11110 11100 1010 1011 01011 1101 1101 1011 01011 1110 10010 101001 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 502 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on March 15, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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