Question

What comforts did the West Wind promise to provide the poet?

Answer 1

Explanation:

In terms of meter, the poet makes use of irregular stresses and lots of spondees (a type of metrical foot that has two stressed syllables): in the first line alone, we have "warm wind," "west wind," "birds' cries." There are several places where Masefield has layered three stressed syllables consecutively: "in my eyes," "old brown hills," and "air's like wine" are a few examples. This kind of repetitive stress (and even the use of monosyllabic words—words with only one syllable each) gives the poem an insistent feeling, as though it is urged onward, like the wind itself

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