Analysis of A Wall Flower
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!
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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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