Analysis of What She Said
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
She said: Would I might sleep
With the bulbs I plant so deep,
Forgetting all the long Winter
That I must awake and weep.
A dreamless sleepy-head,
Forgetting my Dear was dead;
Nothing caring nor knowing
While the dark season sped.
I am so young, so young,
And the years stretch out so long,
The weeks and the months so endless;
The long life does me wrong.
I would grow old and grey,
As though 'twere only a day,
Till his voice came calling, calling
To me under the clay.
Then I should spring to the sun,
Life done with, Life begun,
And run where he waited to lift me
Over the threshold stone.
She sighed in the Autumn weather: --
Would I and the bulbs together,
For Spring lay quietly waiting;
I and the bulbs together.
Scheme | AABA CCDC XEXE FFDF GGXX BBDB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 1011111 01010110 1110101 01101 0101111 1010110 101101 111111 0011111 01001110 011111 111101 1111001 11111010 111001 1111101 111101 011110111 10011 11001010 11001010 11110010 1001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 704 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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