Analysis of The Taxi
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
When I go away from you
The world beats dead
Like a slackened drum.
I call out for you against the jutted stars
And shout into the ridges of the wind.
Streets coming fast,
One after the other,
Wedge you away from me,
ANd the lamps of the city prick my eyes
So that I can no longer see your face.
Why should I leave you,
To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJAK |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111 0111 10101 1111101011 0101010101 1101 110010 110111 0011010111 1111110111 11111 111010110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 367 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 287 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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