Analysis of Emily Hardcastle, Spinster
John Crowe Ransom 1888 (Pulaski) – 1974 (Gambier)
We shall come tomorrow morning, who were not to have her love,
We shall bring no face of envy but a gift of praise and lilies
To the stately ceremonial we are not the heroes of.
Let the sisters now attend her, who are red-eyed, who are wroth;
They were younger, she was finer, for they wearied of the waiting
And they married them to merchants, being unbelievers both.
I was dapper when I dangled in my pepper-and-salt;
We were only local beauties, and we beautifully trusted
If the proud one had to tarry, one would have her by default.
But right across the threshold has her grizzled Baron come;
Let them robe her, Bride and Princess, who’ll go down a leafy archway
And seal her to the Stranger for his castle in the gloom.
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Metre | 11101101011101 1111111010111010 101001001110101 101010101111111 1010111011101010 011011101011 11101110011001 101010100110010 101111101110101 1101011010101 111010101110101 01010101110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 735 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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