Analysis of Two Poems: (Numbers i and x in 'Strange Meetings.')
Harold Monro 1879 (Brussels) – 1932
I
If suddenly a clod of earth should rise,
And walk about, and breathe, and speak, and love,
How one would tremble, and in what surprise
Gasp: 'Can you move?'
I see men walking, and I always feel:
'Earth! How have you done this? What can you be?'
I can't learn how to know men, or conceal
How strange they are to me.
II
A flower is looking through the ground,
Blinking at the April weather;
Now a child has seen the flower:
Now they go and play together.
Now is seems the flower will speak,
And will call the child its brother --
But, oh strange forgetfulness! --
They don't recognize each other.
Scheme | ABXBX CDCD AXEEE XEBE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 1100011111 0101010101 1111000101 1111 111100111 1111111111 1111111101 111111 1 010110101 10101010 10111010 11101010 11101011 01101110 1111 1110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 604 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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