Analysis of Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom
Louise Bogan 1897 (Livermore Falls) – 1970 (New York City)
Men loved wholly beyond wisdom
Have the staff without the banner.
Like a fire in a dry thicket
Rising within women's eyes
Is the love men must return.
Heart, so subtle now, and trembling,
What a marvel to be wise.,
To love never in this manner!
To be quiet in the fern
Like a thing gone dead and still,
Listening to the prisoned cricket
Shake its terrible dissembling
Music in the granite hill.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11100110 10101010 101000110 1001101 1011101 111010100 1010111 11100110 1110001 1011101 100101010 11100010 1000101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 390 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 311 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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