Analysis of Summer is dying
Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1873 (Ivnitsa, Volhynian Governorate) – 1934 (Vienna)
Summer is dying in the purple and gold and russet
of the falling leaves of the wood,
and the sunset clouds are dying
in their own blood.
In the emptying public gardens
the last strollers break their walk
to lift their eyes and follow
the flight of the last stork.
The heart is orphaned. Soon
the cold rains will be drumming.
'Have you patched your coat for winter!
Stocked potatoes against its coming?'
Scheme | XXAX XXXX XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 10110001001010 10101101 0011110 0111 001001010 0110111 1111010 011011 011101 0111110 11111110 101001110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 410 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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