Analysis of Les Lauriers Sont Coupée
Elinor Morton Wylie 1885 (Somerville, New Jersey) – 1928 (New York City, New York)
Ah, love, within the shadow of the wood
The laurels are cut down; some other brows
May bear the classic wreath which Fame allows
And find the burden honorable and good.
Have we not passed the laurels as they stood--
Soft in the veil with which Spring endows
The wintry glitter of their woven boughs--
Nor stopped to break the branches while we could?
Ah, love, for other brows they are cut down.
Thornless and scentless are their stems and flowers,
And cold as death their twisted coronal.
Sweeter to us the sharpness of this crown;
Sweeter the wildest roses which are ours;
Sweeter the petals, even when they fall.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDECDE |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet |
Metre | 110101101 0101111101 1101011101 01010100001 1111010111 100111101 0101011101 1111010111 1111011111 101111010 01111101 1011010111 10010101110 1001010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 622 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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