Analysis of Piazza Piece

John Crowe Ransom 1888 (Pulaski) – 1974 (Gambier)



-- I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying
To make you hear. Your ears are soft and small
And listen to an old man not at all,
They want the young men's whispering and sighing.
But see the roses on your trellis dying
And hear the spectral singing of the moon;
For I must have my lovely lady soon,
I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying.

-- I am a lady young in beauty waiting
Until my truelove comes, and then we kiss.
But what grey man among the vines is this
Whose words are dry and faint as in a dream?
Back from my trellis, Sir, before I scream !
I am a lady young in beauty waiting.


Scheme AbbaaccA AddeeA
Poetic Form
Metre 11010000110 1111111101 0101111111 11011100010 11010111010 010110101 1111110101 11010000110 11010101010 011110111 1111010111 1111011001 1111010111 11010101010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 579
Words 122
Sentences 8
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 223
Words per stanza (avg) 61
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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John Crowe Ransom

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