Analysis of Ms. Lily

Harold Creggan 1950 (Tadcaster)



She walks in the beauty of youth,
               Apparently untouched by the woe of life.
Clearly beyond my pale,
                from where have you come?
Were you chosen by the gods of selection,                             
                for me?
Why does my heart beat, so very strong,
                for that what I cannot touch?
For I am three times twenty four,
                much too old for you.
I would that I had met you when ,
                I was thirty one.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKE
Poetic Form
Metre 11001011 01000110111 100111 11111 01101011010 11 111111101 1111101 11111101 11111 11111111 11101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 476
Words 82
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 268
Words per stanza (avg) 72

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Written on October 24, 2022

Submitted by on October 24, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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