Analysis of Realization
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
I smiled with skeptic mocking where they told me you were dead,
You of the airy laughter and lightly twinkling feet;
"They tell a dream that haunted a chill gray dawn," I said,
"Death could not touch or claim a thing so vivid and so sweet!"
I looked upon you coffined amid your virgin flowers,
But even that white silence could bring me no belief:
"She lies in maiden sleep," I said. "and in the youngling hours
Her sealed dark eyes will open to scorn our foolish grief."
But when I went at moonrise to our ancient trysting place. . . . .
And, oh, the wind was keening in the fir-boughs overhead! . . . .
And you came never to me with your little gypsy face,
Your lips and hands of welcome, I knew that you were dead!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EAEA |
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Poetic Form | Pantoum Quatrain |
Metre | 11110101111101 11010100101001 1101110011111 11111101110011 1101110111010 1101110111101 11010111000110 01111101110101 1111111101011 0101110011101 01110111110101 1101110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 718 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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