Analysis of Sea Poppies
Hilda Doolittle 1886 (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) – 1961 (Zurich)
Amber husk
fluted with gold,
fruit on the sand
marked with a rich grain,
treasure
spilled near the shrub-pines
to bleach on the boulders:
your stalk has caught root
among wet pebbles
and drift flung by the sea
and grated shells
and split conch-shells.
Beautiful, wide-spread,
fire upon leaf,
what meadow yields
so fragrant a leaf
as your bright leaf?
Scheme | XXXX XXX XXXAA XBXBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 111 1101 11011 10 11011 111010 11111 01110 011101 0101 0111 10011 10011 111 11001 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 358 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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