Analysis of A winters night
Jo Wooding 1970 (Auckland)
The leaves are gone
Just the evergreen
The most beautiful colours
Are now just a dream
The wind is bitter
The rain it stings
Icy gusts
Cant change these things
Snuggle up warm
Another blanket or two
No more jandals
Tis time for sock and shoe
Jacket outside
In rain or shine
A winters coat
Becomes your shrine
Don’t want to go out
Its snowing somewhere
Not on me
But I feel it in the air
Warm winter kisses
Cuddles with loved one
Laughing together
Ignoring cold and having fun
The fires lit
Another log goes on top
The dog on his mat
Turning his head to smell my chop
He knows there is a bone
A wee wink he gave
To remind me
The bone I must save
The cat at the door
Wants in then wants out
Argh make ya mind up
Before I start to shout
Dog lifts his head
As if to say
“I wasn’t letting you
In here to stay anyway
The noise of winter
On the window outside
Hear the wind whistles
As the rain starts to sideways glide
Grateful for a roof
And a nice warm bed
Somewhere to snuggle
And rest my head
Scheme | XXAX BAAA XCAC DEXE FGHG AIBI XJXJ XKHK XFXF LACX BDAD XLXL |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (92%) |
Metre | 0111 1010 011001 11101 01110 0111 101 1111 1011 0101011 111 111101 1011 0111 0101 0111 11111 1101 111 1111001 11010 1111 10010 01010101 0101 0101111 01111 10111111 111101 01111 1011 01111 01101 10111 11111 011111 1111 1111 11101 011110 01110 101011 10110 1011111 10101 00111 1110 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 950 |
Words | 201 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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