Analysis of Song in Exile
Alice Duer Miller 1874 (New York) – 1942 (New York)
THE rustling palms bend readily
Between the sun and me;
The trades blow warm and steadily
Across the turquoise sea;
But I'd rather feel the March wind bite
In the country of the free.
Hibiscus and camellias
Bloom here abundantly,
And roses and gardenias
The sweetest flowers there be
But I'd rather see through the bare north woods
One bridal dogwood tree.
The tropic light is mellow
As a lamp in a lighted room;
The sun shines high and yellow
In the quivering cloudless dome;
But, oh, for the snow and the cruel cold
And the rigors of my home!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011100 010101 01110100 010101 111010111 0010101 101 110100 0100010 0101011 1110110111 11011 0101110 10100101 0111010 00100101 1110100101 0010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 541 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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