# 17
The poem's stanzas are formed so that they describe certain times of day. The first stanza is showing morning with words such as "season mists," "maturing sun," and "warm days." These phrases set an image of misty mornings where the sun is growing higher in the sky. The speaker is happy with the early signs of fall. The second stanza is evening when things start to cool off with the "winnowing wind" and "oozing hours." The time here seems to drag on, and I get the sense that as the season grows closer to winter, the speaker grows more impatient. The third stanza starts with "Where are the songs of spring?" showing further the impatience to get winter over with. Phrases like "soft-dying day," "small gnats mourn," "hedge-crickets sing," and "swallows twitter the sky" depict dusk with a setting sun, bugs coming out, birds flying to their resting places. The poem has a settling, peaceful tone to it, besides the middle stanza where the writers impatience with a long winter comes into play.
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