Analysis of Internal Firesides
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
Bewilderingly, from wildly shaken cloud,
Invisible hands, deft moving everywhere,
Have woven a winding sheet of velvet air,
And laid the dead earth in her downy shroud.
And more and more, in white confusion, crowd
Wan, whirling flakes, while o'er the icy glare
Blue heaven that was glooms blackening o'er the bare
Tree skeletons, to ruthless tempest bowed.
Nay, let the outer world be winter-locked;
Beside the hearth of glowing memories
I warm my life. Once more our boat is rocked,
As on a cradle by the palm-fringed Nile;
And, sharp-cut silhouettes, in single file,
Lank camels lounge against transparent skies.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CXCDDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 0100111010 11001011101 0101100101 0101010101 11011100101 1101111001001 1100110101 1101011101 0101110100 11111110111 1101010111 011010101 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 622 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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