Analysis of Let Me Grow Lovely
Karle Wilson Baker 1878 (Little Rock) – 1960
Let me grow lovely, growing old--
So many fine things do:
Laces, and ivory, and gold,
And silks need not be new;
And there is healing in old trees,
Old streets a glamour hold;
Why may not I, as well as these,
Grow lovely, growing old?
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 110111 10010001 011111 01110011 110101 11111111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 235 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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