Analysis of To A Husband

Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)



Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River
Are your words in the dark, Beloved.


Scheme AB
Poetic Form
Metre 10110010110 11100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 87
Words 16
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 64
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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