Analysis of Apples And Water
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
Dust in a cloud, blinding weather,
Drums that rattle and roar!
A mother and daughter stood together
Beside their cottage door.
'Mother, the heavens are bright like brass,
The dust is shaken high,
With labouring breath the soldiers pass,
Their lips are cracked and dry.'
'Mother, I'll throw them apples down,
I'll bring them pails of water.'
The mother turned with an angry frown
Holding back her daughter.
'But mother, see, they faint with thirst,
They march away to die,'
'Ah, sweet, had I but known at first
Their throats are always dry.'
'There is no water can supply them
In western streams that flow,
There is no fruit can satisfy them
On orchard trees that grow.'
'Once in my youth I gave, poor fool,
A soldier apples and water,
So may I die before you cool
Your father's drouth, my daughter.'
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EAEA FDFD GHGH IAIA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10011010 111001 0100101010 011101 100101111 011101 1110101 111101 10111101 1111110 010111101 101010 11011111 110111 11111111 11111 111101011 010111 11111101 110111 10111111 01010010 11110111 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 784 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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