Analysis of The Mysteries Remain

Hilda Doolittle 1886 (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) – 1961 (Zurich)



The mysteries remain,
I keep the same
cycle of seed-time
and of sun and rain;
Demeter in the grass,
I multiply,
renew and bless
Bacchus in the vine;
I hold the law,
I keep the mysteries true,
the first of these
to name the living, dead;
I am the wine and bread.
I keep the law,
I hold the mysteries true,
I am the vine,
the branches, you
and you.


Scheme ABCADEFGHIJKKHIGII
Poetic Form
Metre 010001 1101 10111 01101 010001 110 0101 10001 1101 1101001 0111 110101 110101 1101 1101001 1101 0101 01
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 337
Words 72
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 261
Words per stanza (avg) 70
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 26, 2023

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Hilda Doolittle

Hilda Doolittle was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist, associated with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets, including Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. She published under the pen name H. D. Hilda was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1886, and grew up just outside Philadelphia in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, and attended Bryn Mawr College. She moved to London in 1911, where she played a central role within the then-emerging Imagist movement. Young and charismatic, she was championed by the modernist poet Ezra Pound, who was instrumental in building her career. From 1916–17, she acted as the literary editor of the Egoist journal, while her poetry appeared in the English Review and the Transatlantic Review.  more…

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