Analysis of In The Grass.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
'Tis as if I saw it all — sat now in the grass, and heard
The soft warm wind in my ears like the lilt of a lonely bird;
Sat now in the grasses so — saw, but said never a word.
The two of them in the wood, below me there by the rill;
He with the light on his brow, she in the shadow still;
And a cloud so white goes over the blue on the gleaming hill.
My nest in the grass was good: they deemed that none might see —
Ah God in heaven! my eyes looked out of the hell in me,
As his arm went round her waist, and his lips where mine might be —
Touched hers, as her face drew up like a flower in the light to his —
Touched hers, as I felt her soul shine out in a dream of bliss;
While mine with the pangs of hell was alive in a world like this!
I dared not move, nor could I shut my eyes to it all;
And still they clung and kissed: I heard the waterfall,
I heard the warm wind sing till the day began to pall.
And then they rose, the twain who had taken my life from me;
I did not rise, but lay where none might hear or see,
In the grass in the dark and sobbed, 'Would God that the end might be!'
The years have come since then, and the years have gone but I,
Though the fever of death was strong upon me, did not die;
And though I am old and weak as upon my couch I lie,
'Tis as if I saw it all — sat still in the grass, and heard
The soft warm wind in my ears like the lilt of a lonely bird;
Sat still in the grasses so — saw, but said never a word.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111100101 011101110110101 11001011111001 01110010111101 110111110011 001111100110101 1100111111111 11010111110101 11111010111111 1010111101000111 10111011100111 111011110100111 1111111111111 01110111010 1101111010111 01110111101111 111111111111 001001011110111 0111110011111 10101111011111 01111011011111 11111111100101 011101110110101 11001011111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,445 |
Words | 324 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 13 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,078 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 321 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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