Analysis of Sorrowing Love

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



And again the flowers are come,
And the light shakes,
And no tiny voice is dumb,
And a bud breaks
On the humble bush and the proud restless tree.
Come with me!

Look, this little flower is pink,
And this one white.
Here's a pearl cup for your drink,
Here's for your delight
A yellow one, sweet  with honey.
Here's fairy money
Silver bright
Scattered over the grass
As we pass.

Here's moss.  How the smell of it lingers
On my cold fingers!
You shall have no moss.  Here's a frail
Hyacinth, deathyly pale.
Not for you, not for you!
And the place where they grew
You must promise me not to discover,
My sorrowful lover!
Shall we never be happy again?
Never again play?
In vain--in vain!
Come away!


Scheme ABABCC DEDECCEFF GGHHIIJJXKXK
Poetic Form
Metre 00101011 0011 0110111 0011 10101001101 111 11101011 0111 1011111 11101 01011110 11010 101 101001 111 111011110 11110 11111101 1011 111111 001111 1110111010 110010 111011001 10011 0101 101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 675
Words 132
Sentences 16
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 9, 12
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 176
Words per stanza (avg) 44
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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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