Analysis of Writ In A Book Of Welsh Verse
Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935
This is the house where I was bred:
The wind blows through it without stint,
The wind bitten by the roadside mint;
Here brake I loaf, here climbed to bed.
The fuchsia on the window sill;
Even the candlesticks a-row,
Wrought by grave men so long ago —
I loved them once, I love them still.
Southward and westward a great sky! —
The throb of sea within mine ear —
Then something different, more near,
As though a wistful foot went by.
Ghost of a ghost down all the years! —
In low-roofed room, at turn of stair,
At table-setting, and at prayer,
Old wars, old hungers, and old tears!
Scheme | ABBA CDDC EXXE XFFX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11011111 01111011 01101011 11111111 0110101 1001001 11111101 11111111 10010011 01110111 11010011 11010111 11011101 01111111 11010011 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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