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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Amy Lowell

Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. more…

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