Analysis of On Receiving One Of Gloriana’s Letters
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
Your pen needs but a ruffle
To be Pavlova whirling.
It surely is a scalawag
A-scamping down the page.
A pretty little May-wind
The morning buds uncurling.
And then the white sweet Russian,
The dancer of the age.
Your pen’s the Queen of Sheba,
Such serious questions bringing,
That merry rascal Solomon
Would show a sober face:—
And then again Pavlova
To set our spirits singing,
The snowy-swan bacchante
All glamour, glee and grace.
Scheme | XAABCADB XADEXACE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 11110 110101 01101 0101011 01011 0101110 010101 1101110 11001010 11010100 110101 01011 11101010 01011 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 429 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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