Analysis of At the Mermaid Caffeteria
Christopher Morley 1890 (Haverford) – 1957
TRUTH is enough for prose:
Calmly it goes
To tell just what it knows.
For verse, skill will suffice-
Delicate, nice
Casting of verbal dice.
Poetry, men attain
By subtler pain
More flagrant in the brain-
An honesty unfeigned,
A heart unchained,
A madness well restrained.
| Scheme | AAA BBB CCC DDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Triplet |
| Metre | 110111 1011 111111 111101 1001 101101 100101 11001 110001 11001 011 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 275 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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