Analysis of Now let no charitable hope
Elinor Morton Wylie 1885 (Somerville, New Jersey) – 1928 (New York City, New York)
Now let no charitable hope
Confuse my mind with images
Of eagle and of antelope:
I am by nature none of these.
I was, being human, born alone;
I am, being woman, hard beset;
I live by squeezing from a stone
What little nourishment I get.
In masks outrageous and austere
The years go by in single file;
But none has merited my fear,
And none has quite escaped my smile.
| Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 11110001 01111100 1100110 11110111 111010101 111010101 11110101 11010011 01010001 01110101 11110011 01110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 376 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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