Analysis of St. Valentine's Day
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
The South is a dream of flowers
With a jewel for sky and sea,
Rose-crowns for the dancing hours,
Gold fruits upon every tree;
But cold from the North The wind blows forth
That blows my love to me.
The stars in the South are gold
Like lamps between sky and sea;
The flowers that the forests hold.
Like stars between tree and tree;
But little and white Is the pale moon's light
That lights my love to me.
In the South the orange grove
Makes dusk by the dusky sea,
White palaces wrought for love
Gleam white between tree and tree,
But under bare boughs Is the little house
Warm-lit for my love and me.
Scheme | ABABCBDBDBEBFBGBHB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101110 10101101 11101010 11011001 111010111 111111 0100111 1101101 01010101 1101101 1100110111 111111 0010101 111011 1100111 1101101 1101110101 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 633 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 469 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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