Analysis of Retro Santhanas
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
'REFUSE, refrain: for this is not the love
The Annunciation Angel warned you of;
This is the little candle, not the sun;
It burns, but will not warm, unhappy one!'
'But ah! suppose the sun should never shine,
Then what an anguish of regret were mine
To know that even from this I turned away!
Candles may serve, if there should be no day.'
'Nay, better to go cold your whole life long
Than do the sun, than do your soul such wrong:
And if the sun shine not, be life's the blame
And yours the pride, who scorned the meaner flame.'
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0101111101 0110111 1101010101 1111110101 1101011101 1111010101 11110111101 1011111111 1101111111 1101111111 0101111101 0101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 526 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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