Analysis of Sanary
Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)
Her little hot room looked over the bay
Through a stiff palisade of glinting palms,
And there she would lie in the heat of the day,
Her dark head resting upon her arms,
So quiet, so still, she did not seem
To think, to feel, or even to dream.
The shimmering, blinding web of sea
Hung from the sky, and the spider sun
With busy frightening cruelty
Crawled over the sky and spun and spun.
She could see it still when she shut her eyes,
And the little boats caught in the web like flies.
Down below at this idle hour
Nobody walked in the dust street;
A scent of a dying mimosa flower
Lay on the air, but sweet--too sweet.
Scheme | AXAXBB CDCDEE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111001 101011101 01111001101 011100101 110111111 111111011 010010111 110100101 11010010 110010101 1111111101 00101100111 101111010 110011 01101001010 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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