Analysis of A Roman Doll
Eleanor Agnes Lee 1841 (Arlington County, Virginia) – 1873 (Lexington, Virginia)
(In a Museum)
How an image of paint and wood
Leaped to her life with a love's control,
Struck the chords of her motherhood,
Passionate little mother-soul!
Fair to her sight were the stolid eyes,
Dear to her toil the robes empearled.
She crooned it the ancient lullabies,
She gathered it close from the outer world.
They watched together, as Nero's pyres
Fed the haze of a hundred fires.
Me in her fresh young arms she bore.
See, I am small,
Only a doll.
But I keep her kiss forevermore.
Long and lonely the toy has lain.
One by one into time's abyss
Years have dropped as the drops of rain.
Yet the cycles have left us this!
O red-lipped mother, O mother sweet,
Today a sister has heard you call,
I saw her weep o'er the crumbling doll.
She knew, she knew! You had lived and smiled!
You had loved your dream, little Roman child!
Me in her fresh young arms she bore.
See, I am small,
Only a doll.
But I keep her kiss forevermore.
Scheme | xababcacxdd EFGE hihixfgjj EFGE |
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Poetic Form | Song |
Metre | 00010 11101101 110110101 1011010 10010101 110100101 1101011 11101010 1101110101 1101011010 101101010 10011111 1111 1001 111011 10100111 11101101 11110111 10101111 111101101 010101111 11011001001 111111101 1111110101 10011111 1111 1001 111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 936 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 4, 9, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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