Analysis of Opal
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
You are ice and fire,
The touch of you burns my hands like snow.
You are cold and flame.
You are the crimson of amaryllis,
The silver of moon-touched magnolias.
When I am with you,
My heart is a frozen pond
Gleaming with agitated torches.
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| Scheme | XXXAXXXX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010 011111111 11101 110101010 010111010 11111 1110101 10110010 010110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 257 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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