Analysis of Quieta Ne Movete
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
DEAR, if I told you, made your sorrow certain,
Showed you the ghosts that o'er my pillow lean,
What joy were mine--to cast aside the curtain
And clasp you close with no base lies between!
You have given all, and still would find to give me
More love, more tenderness than ever yet:
You would forgive me--ah, you would forgive me,
But all your life you never would forget.
And I, thank God, can still in your embraces
Forget the past, with all its strife and stain,
--But if you, too, beheld the evil faces,
I should forget them never, never again!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11111111010 11011101101 11011101010 0111111101 111010111111 1111001101 11011111011 1111110101 01111101010 0101111101 1111101010 11011101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 555 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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