Analysis of Up in my room on my unmade bed

Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)



Up in my room on my unmade bed
I sat and read.
There was work waiting for me below.
I didn't go.
For in my little green room the song
Flickered along.
If the singer had seen the way it fared
She would have stared,
Have wondered and stared at me who read
With tumbled bed,
Wide-open window, wide-open door,
Books on the floor.
Hers was a disciplined, comely, wise
Christina-guise.
But what's the hell of a mess to me
When I am free
And wind blows in and a delicate song
Flickers along.


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Poetic Form
Metre 101111011 1101 111101101 1101 101101101 1001 1010110111 1111 110011111 1101 110101101 1101 010100101 0101 110110111 1111 0110001001 1001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 492
Words 96
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 373
Words per stanza (avg) 94
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 01, 2023

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Lesbia Harford

Lesbia Harford was an Australian poet, novelist and political activist. more…

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