Analysis of The Wife
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)
Living, I had no might
To make you hear,
Now, in the inmost night,
I am so near
No whisper, falling light,
Divides us, dear.
Living, I had no claim
On your great hours.
Now the thin candle-flame,
The closing flowers,
Wed summer with my name, --
And these are ours.
Your shadow on the dust,
Strength, and a cry,
Delight, despair, mistrust, --
All these am I.
Dawn, and the far hills thrust
To a far sky.
Living, I had no skill
To stay your tread,
Now all that was my will
Silence has said.
We are one for good and ill
Since I am dead.
Scheme | AXABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF GHGHGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 1111 10011 1111 110101 0111 101111 11110 101101 01010 110111 01110 11101 1001 010101 1111 100111 1011 101111 1111 111111 1011 1111101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 518 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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