Analysis of Pear Tree
Hilda Doolittle 1886 (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) – 1961 (Zurich)
Silver dust
lifted from the earth,
higher than my arms reach,
you have mounted.
O silver,
higher than my arms reach
you front us with great mass;
no flower ever opened
so staunch a white leaf,
no flower ever parted silver
from such rare silver;
O white pear,
your flower-tufts,
thick on the branch,
bring summer and ripe fruits
in their purple hearts.
Scheme | xxAxbAx xxbb xxxxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 10101 101111 1110 110 101111 111111 1101010 11011 110101010 11110 111 1101 1101 110011 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 357 |
Words | 65 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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