Analysis of A Wall Flower

Amy Levy 1861 (London) – 1889 (London)



I lounge in the doorway and languish in vain
While Tom, Dick and Harry are dancing with Jane

My spirit rises to the music's beat;
There is a leaden fiend lurks in my feet!
To move unto your motion, Love, were sweet.

Somewhere, I think, some other where, not here,
In other ages, on another sphere,
I danced with you, and you with me, my dear.

In perfect motion did our bodies sway,
To perfect music that was heard alway;
Woe's me, that am so dull of foot to-day!

To move unto your motion, Love, were sweet;
My spirit rises to the music's beat--
But, ah, the leaden demon in my feet!


Scheme aa BbB xcc ddd BBb
Poetic Form
Metre 1100101001 11101011011 1101010101 1101011011 1110110101 111110111 0101010101 1111011111 00110110101 101101111 1111111111 1110110101 1101010101 1101010011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 577
Words 114
Sentences 6
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Amy Levy

Amy Levy was a British essayist, poet, and novelist best remembered for her feminist positions and her homosexual romances during the Victorian era. more…

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