Analysis of In Answer To A Request
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
You ask me for a sonnet. Ah, my Dear,
Can clocks tick back to yesterday at noon?
Can cracked and fallen leaves recall last June
And leap up on the boughs, now stiff and sere?
For your sake, I would go and seek the year,
Faded beyond the purple ranks of dune,
Blown sands of drifted hours, which the moon
Streaks with a ghostly finger, and her sneer
Pulls at my lengthening shadow. Yes, 'tis that!
My shadow stretches forward, and the ground
Is dark in front because the light's behind.
It is grotesque, with such a funny hat,
In watching it and walking I have found
More than enough to occupy my mind.
I cannot turn, the light would make me blind.
Scheme | ABBAABBACDECDE E |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111010111 111111011 110101111 0111011101 1111110101 1001010111 1111010101 1101010001 1111001111 111010001 1101010101 1101110101 0101010111 110111011 1101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 1 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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