Analysis of In Hospital
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
Under the shadow of a hawthorn brake,
Where bluebells draw the sky down to the wood,
Where, 'mid brown leaves, the primroses awake
And hidden violets smell of solitude;
Beneath green leaves bright-fluttered by the wing
Of fleeting, beautiful, immortal Spring,
I should have said, 'I love you,' and your eyes
Have said, 'I, too . . . ' The gods saw otherwise.
For this is winter, and the London streets
Are full of soldiers from that far, fierce fray
Where life knows death, and where poor glory meets
Full-face with shame, and weeps and turns away.
And in the broken, trampled foreign wood
Is horror, and the terrible scent of blood,
And love shines tremulous, like a drowning star,
Under the shadow of the wings of war.
Scheme | ABAXCCDD EFEFBXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011011 111011101 111101001 0101001110 0111110101 1101000101 1111111011 111101110 1111000101 1111011111 1111011101 1111010101 0001010101 11000100111 01110010101 100110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 713 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 280 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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