Analysis of The Water Ouzel
Harriet Monroe 1860 (Chicago) – 1936 (Arequipa)
Little brown surf-bather of the mountains!
Spirit of foam, lover of cataracts, shaking your wings in falling waters!
Have you no fear of the roar and rush when Nevada plunges --
Nevada, the shapely dancer, feeling her way with slim white fingers?
How dare you dash at Yosemite the mighty --
Tall, white limbed Yosemite, leaping down, down over the cliff?
Is it not enough to lean on the blue air of mountains?
Is it not enough to rest with your mate at timberline, in bushes that hug
the rocks?
Must you fly through mad waters where the heaped-up granite breaks them?
Must you batter your wings in the torrent?
Must you plunge for life and death through the foam?
Scheme | ABCBDEAFGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101010 101110110101101010 111110101101010 01001010100111110 111110100010 111010010111001 11101111011110 111011111111001011 01 111111010111011 1110110010 1111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 674 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 521 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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