Analysis of A Lady
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
You are beautiful and faded
Like an old opera tune
Played upon a harpsichord;
Or like the sun-flooded silks
Of an eighteenth-century boudoir.
In your eyes
Smoulder the fallen roses of out-lived minutes,
And the perfume of your soul
Is vague and suffusing,
With the pungence of sealed spice-jars.
Your half-tones delight me,
And I grow mad with gazing
At your blent colours.
My vigour is a new-minted penny,
Which I cast at your feet.
Gather it up from the dust,
That its sparkle may amuse you.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100010 111101 101010 1101101 11011001 011 10101011110 0001111 110010 1011111 111011 0111110 1111 111011010 111111 1011101 11101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 501 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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