Analysis of Apology
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
Be not angry with me that I bear
Your colours everywhere,
All through each crowded street,
And meet
The wonder-light in every eye,
As I go by.
Each plodding wayfarer looks up to gaze,
Blinded by rainbow haze,
The stuff of happiness,
No less,
Which wraps me in its glad-hued folds
Of peacock golds.
Before my feet the dusty, rough-paved way
Flushes beneath its gray.
My steps fall ringed with light,
So bright,
It seems a myriad suns are strown
About the town.
Around me is the sound of steepled bells,
And rich perfumed smells
Hang like a wind-forgotten cloud,
And shroud
Me from close contact with the world.
I dwell impearled.
You blazon me with jewelled insignia.
A flaming nebula
Rims in my life. And yet
You set
The word upon me, unconfessed
To go unguessed.
Scheme | AABBCC DDXXEE FFGGHH IIJJXB HXKKBB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (37%) Etheree (27%) |
Metre | 111011111 1110 111101 01 010101001 1111 11011111 10111 011100 11 11101111 111 0111010111 100111 111111 11 110100111 0101 011101111 01011 11010101 01 1111101 111 111110100 010100 101101 11 010111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 846 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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