Analysis of Betrayed
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
I WENT back to our home to-day
That still its robe of roses wore;
My feet took the old easy way,
And led me to our door.
And you are gone and never more
Those little feet of yours will come
To meet me at the open door,
The threshold of our home.
The door unlatched did not protest:
I entered, and the silence drew
My steps towards the little nest
That once I shared with you.
There lay your fan, your open book,
Your seam half-sewn, and I could see
The window whence you used to look--
Yes, once you looked--for me.
Print of your little head caressed
Our pillow still, and on the floor
Still lay, dropped there when last you dressed,
The scarf and rose you wore.
All should have spoken of you plain,
Yet, when I bade the silence tell
Of you, my bidding was in vain,
I could not break its spell.
The silence would not speak, my dear,
Till the last level light grew dim;
Then, in the twilight I could hear;
The silence spoke--of him.
Scheme | ABAB BXBX CDCD EFEF CBCB GHGH XIXI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 111110111 11111101 11101101 0111101 01110101 11011111 11110101 011101 011111 11000101 11010101 111111 11111101 11110111 01011111 111111 11110101 101010101 11111111 010111 11110111 11110101 11110101 111111 01011111 10110111 1001111 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 938 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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