Analysis of The Charm
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
LIKE crimson lamps the tulips swing,
The lily flowers their incense bring,
The daisies votive garlands fling
Before the altar of the Spring.
And you and I in this green May,
When thrushes sing, and white lambs play,
Go glad at heart--so glad and gay,
No word seems good enough to say.
Yet there's a charm, it would appear,
Which, if I spoke it in your ear,
Would fix the spring for ever here;
Pass on--I will not speak it, dear.
Scheme | AAAA BBBB CDDC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010101 010101011 010111 01010101 01010111 11010111 11111101 11110111 11011101 11111011 11011101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 436 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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