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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