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The poem consists of four quatrains in abab iambic pentameter. [4] A series of symbols, clouds, wind harps, describe the permanence in impermanence. The themes of transformation and metamorphosis and the transitory and ephemeral nature of human life and the works of mankind were also addressed in "Ozymandias" (1818) and "The Cloud" (1820). [5]
Climbing the hill within the deafening wind... 1944-10-23: The North Ship: Come then to prayers... 1946-05-13: Collected Poems 1988: Coming: 1950-02-25: The Less Deceived: Coming at last to night's most thankful springs... 1945-03-01: Collected Poems 1988: Compline: 1950-02-12: Collected Poems 1988: Conscript (for James Ballard Sutton) 1941-10 ...
There were 55 tornado touch downs during the day; one was rated EF3. 390 damaging wind gusts were also reported, including 5 hurricane gusts. Despite the abundance of tornadoes and wind reports, most of the severe activity happened either along and south of the southern part of the high-risk area or well to the east in the slight-risk area over ...
An even more vicious Santa Ana setup happened in early December 2011, with a peak gust of 97 mph at Whitaker Peak, winds commonly found in a Category 2 hurricane. These devastating winds toppled ...
The simple interpretation of the wind chill is how cold the air feels when the wind is factored in. This is the winter counterpart to the "heat index" when it comes to "feels-like" temperatures.
In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air, suggesting that it controls the wind as a man may control a horse. The bird then suddenly swoops downwards and "rebuffed the big wind". The bird can be viewed as a metaphor for Christ or of divine epiphany. Hopkins called "The Windhover" "the best thing [he] ever wrote". [2]
The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward FitzGerald, who adopted the style from Hakim Omar Khayyam, the 12th-century Persian poet and mathematician. Each verse (save the last) follows an AABA rhyming scheme , with the following verse's A line rhyming with that verse's B line, which is a chain rhyme ...
A book by Schulz, titled Snoopy and "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" includes a novel credited to Snoopy as author, was published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston in 1971. [ 11 ] Janet and Allan Ahlberg wrote a book titled It Was a Dark and Stormy Night in which a kidnapped boy must keep his captors entertained with his storytelling.