Analysis of Elsie
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
LITTLE elfin maid,
Old, though scarce two years,
With your big dark hazel eyes
Tenderer than tears,
And your rosebud mouth
Lisping jocund things,
Breaking brooding silence with
Wistful questionings!
Like a flower you grew
While life's bright sun shone.
Does the greedy spendthrift earth
Heed a flower is gone?
No; but Love's fond ken,
That gropes through Death's dark ways,
Almost seems to hear your Voice,
Seems to see your Face!
| Scheme | ABCDEFGFHIJKLMNO |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 11111 1111101 111 01101 111 1010101 10100 101011 11111 101011 101011 11111 111111 111111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 431 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 343 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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