Analysis of The Hammock's Complaint
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
Who thinks how desolate and strange
To me must seem the autumn's change,
When housed in attic or in chest,
A lonely and unwilling guest,
I lie through nights of bleak December,
And think in silence, and remember.
I think of hempen fields, where I
Once played with insects floating by,
And joyed alike in sun and rain,
Unconscious of approaching pain.
I dwell upon my later lot,
Where, swung in some secluded spot
Between two tried and trusted trees,
All summer long I wooed the breeze.
With song of bee and call of bird
And lover's secrets overheard,
And sight and scent of blooming flowers,
To fill the happy sunlight's hours.
When verdant fields grow bare and brown,
When forest leaves come raining down,
When frost has mated with the weather
And all the birds go south together,
When drying boats turn up their keels,
Who wonders how the hammock feels?
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFFGGHHIIJJCCKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110001 11110101 11010101 01000101 111111010 010100010 11110111 1111101 01010101 1010101 11011101 11010101 01110101 11011101 11110111 01010101 010111010 11010110 11011101 11011101 111101010 010111010 11011111 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 854 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 18 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 340 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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