Analysis of Interlude
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
When I have baked white cakes
And grated green almonds to spread on them;
When I have picked the green crowns from the strawberries
And piled them, cone-pointed, in a blue and yellow platter;
When I have smoothed the seam of the linen I have been working;
What then?
To-morrow it will be the same:
Cakes and strawberries,
And needles in and out of cloth
If the sun is beautiful on bricks and pewter,
How much more beautiful is the moon,
Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree;
The moon
Wavering across a bed of tulips;
The moon,
Still,
Upon your face.
You shine, Beloved,
You and the moon.
But which is the reflection?
The clock is striking eleven.
I think, when we have shut and barred the door,
The night will be dark
Outside.
Scheme | abcdefgchdijIkIlmnioopqr |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 0101101111 11110111010 01111000101010 111101101011110 11 11011101 1010 01000111 101110011010 111100101 10101101011 01 1000101110 01 1 0111 1101 1001 1110010 01110010 1111110101 01111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 749 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 580 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 136 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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