Analysis of The Tree Of Scarlet Berries

Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)



The rain gullies the garden paths
And tinkles on the broad sides of grass blades.
A tree, at the end of my arm, is hazy with mist.
Even so, I can see that it has red berries,
A scarlet fruit,
Filmed over with moisture.
It seems as though the rain,
Dripping from it,
Should be tinged with colour.
I desire the berries,
But, in the mist, I only scratch my hand on the thorns.
Probably, too, they are bitter.


Scheme ABCDEFGHFDIF
Poetic Form
Metre 01100101 011011111 0110111111011 101111111110 0101 110110 111101 1011 11111 1010010 1001110111101 10011110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 402
Words 81
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 309
Words per stanza (avg) 79
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 15, 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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