Analysis of Late September
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
Tang of fruitage in the air;
Red boughs bursting everywhere;
Shimmering of seeded grass;
Hooded gentians all a'mass.
Warmth of earth, and cloudless wind
Tearing off the husky rind,
Blowing feathered seeds to fall
By the sun-baked, sheltering wall.
Beech trees in a golden haze;
Hardy sumachs all ablaze,
Glowing through the silver birches.
How that pine tree shouts and lurches!
From the sunny door-jamb high,
Swings the shell of a butterfly.
Scrape of insect violins
Through the stubble shrilly dins.
Every blade's a minaret
Where a small muezzin's set,
Loudly calling us to pray
At the miracle of day.
Then the purple-lidded night
Westering comes, her footsteps light
Guided by the radiant boon
Of a sickle-shaped new moon.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEBX FFXB GGHH IIJJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 111001 111010 1001101 101101 1110101 1010101 1010111 10111001 1100101 101101 1010101 11111010 1010111 1011010 111001 101011 1001001 10111 1010111 1010011 101011 11011 10101001 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 710 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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