Analysis of Spicewood
Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935
The spicewood burns along the gray, spent sky,
In moist unchimneyed places, in a wind,
That whips it all before, and all behind,
Into one thick, rude flame, now low, now high,
It is the first, the homeliest thing of all--
At sight of it, that lad that by it fares,
Whistles afresh his foolish, town-caught airs--
A thing so honey-colored, and so tall!
It is as though the young Year, ere he pass,
To the white riot of the cherry tree,
Would fain accustom us, or here, or there,
To his new sudden ways with bough and grass,
So starts with what is humble, plain to see,
And all familiar as a cup, a chair.
Scheme | ABBACDDC EFGEFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011010111 01110001 1111010101 0111111111 110101111 1111111111 1001110111 0111010011 1111011111 1011010101 1101011111 1111011101 1111110111 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 228 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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