Analysis of Song
Hilda Doolittle 1886 (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) – 1961 (Zurich)
YOU are as gold
as the half-ripe grain
that merges to gold again,
as white as the white rain
that beats through
the half-opened flowers
of the great flower tufts
thick on the black limbs
of an Illyrian apple bough.
Can honey distill such fragrance
as your bright hair-
for your face is as fair as rain,
yet as rain that lies clear
on white honey-comb,
lends radiance to the white wax,
so your hair on your brow
casts light for a shadow.
| Scheme | XAXAXXXXB XXAXXXBX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 10111 1101101 111011 111 011010 101101 11011 110100101 11001110 1111 11111111 111111 11101 11001011 111111 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 429 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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