Analysis of Firelight
Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)
Playing in the fire and twilight together,
My little son and I,
Suddenly--woefully--I stoop to catch him.
"Try, mother, try!"
Old Nurse Silence lifts a silent finger:
"Hush! cease your play!"
What happened? What in that tiny moment
Flew away?
| Scheme | ABXB ACXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 10001001010 110101 10010011111 1101 1110101010 1111 1101011010 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 244 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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