Analysis of Brandon
Alice Duer Miller 1874 (New York) – 1942 (New York)
THE house is empty, and the garden alley,
A shadowed aisle of linden and of yew,
A marble vase, a glimpse of river-valley
Translucent white against transparent blue -
A mystery of boxwood and of byway,
Beneath barred windows and unopened door,
And far below the river like a highway
Sweeps on, but brings no travelers any more.
Beauty alone is constant; where she chooses
A dwelling-place, there would she ever stay;
Fortune and friends and fashion though it loses,
Beauty more faithful does not pass away,
But most deserted, most herself she seems
Left to her deep and solitary dreams.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110001010 0101110011 01010111010 0101010101 010011011 0111000101 0101010101 11111100101 10011101110 0101111101 10010101110 1011011101 1101010111 110101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 588 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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