Analysis of Irene of the Fields
Her step rustling on the cobbled road,
Tapping notes on the ardent August's scale.
A scrape of sun slithered like a snake in the gaps of the slate,
Lighting the grace of her colors.
She kneeled before the spring of cool holy water
Rising from the bowels of the earth,
Received communion from the chalice of her hands,
And disappeared behind the assembly of flaming reeds.
I saw her again--after much time--
As the plain's steaming horizon
Swayed in the harvested wheat,
Her short, torrid summer.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011010101 1011010101 01111101001101 10011010 110101111010 101010101 010101010101 0010100101101 110011011 10110010 1001001 011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 484 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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