Analysis of Sometimes I watch you, mark your brooding eyes
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
Sometimes I watch you, mark your brooding eyes,
Your grave brow over-weighted with deep thought,
Your mouth's straight line — details of such a sort
That all aloofness in your aspect lies.
And yet when in the dark down from above
You swoop like a great bird or God himself
To kiss, your lips have curves. What changeling elf
Is that soft mouth of passionate close love?
| Scheme | ABCADEED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111111101 1111010111 1111011101 110100111 0110011101 1110111101 111111111 1111110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 379 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 293 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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