Analysis of The Tree Of Scarlet Berries
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
The rain gullies the garden paths
And tinkles on the broad sides of grass blades.
A tree, at the end of my arm, is hazy with mist.
Even so, I can see that it has red berries,
A scarlet fruit,
Filmed over with moisture.
It seems as though the rain,
Dripping from it,
Should be tinged with colour.
I desire the berries,
But, in the mist, I only scratch my hand on the thorns.
Probably, too, they are bitter.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01100101 011011111 0110111111011 101111111110 0101 110110 111101 1011 11111 1010010 1001110111101 10011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 402 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 309 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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