Analysis of Reflections
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
When I looked into your eyes,
I saw a garden
With peonies, and tinkling pagodas,
And round-arched bridges
Over still lakes.
A woman sat beside the water
In a rain-blue, silken garment.
She reached through the water
To pluck the crimson peonies
Beneath the surface,
But as she grasped the stems,
They jarred and broke into white-green ripples,
And as she drew out her hand,
The water-drops dripping from it
Stained her rain-blue dress like tears.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 11010 11000100010 01110 1011 010101010 00111010 111010 11010100 01010 111101 1101011110 0111101 01011011 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 452 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 354 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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