Analysis of In the Rangitaki Valley

Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)



valley of waving broom,
O lovely, lovely light,
O hear of the world, red-gold!
Breast high in the blossom I stand;
It beats about me like waves
Of a magical, golden sea

The barren heart of the world
Alive at the kiss of the sun,
The yellow mantle of Summer
Flung over a laughing land,
Warm with the warmth of her body
Sweet with the kiss of her breath

O valley of waving broom,
O lovely, lovely light,
O mystical marriage of Earth
With the passionate Summer sun!
To her lover she holds a cup
And the yellow wine o'erflows.
He has lighted a little torch
And the whole of the world is ablaze.
Prodigal wealth of love!
Breast high in the blossom I stand.


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Poetic Form
Metre 101101 110101 1110111 11001011 1101111 10100101 0101101 01101101 01010110 1100101 11011010 1101101 1101101 110101 11001011 10100101 10101101 001011 11100101 001101101 100111 11001011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 642
Words 127
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 10
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 169
Words per stanza (avg) 42
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. more…

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