Analysis of Children of Wealth in your Warm Nursery
Elizabeth Daryush 1887 – 1977
Children of wealth in your warm nursery,
Set in the cushioned window-seat to watch
The volleying snow, guarded invisibly
By the clear double pane through which no touch
Untimely penetrates, you cannot tell
What winter means; its cruel truths to you
Are only sound and sight; your citadel
Is safe from feeling, and from knowledge too.
Go down, go out to elemental wrong,
Waste your too round limbs, tan your skin too white;
The glass of comfort, ignorance, seems strong
To-day, and yet perhaps this very night
You'll wake to horror's wrecking fireyour home
Is wired within for this, in every room.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011011100 1001010111 011101 1011011111 010101101 1101110111 110101110 1111001101 111110101 1111111111 0111010011 1101011101 1111101011 110011101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 238 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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