Analysis of The Balcony
Muriel Stuart 1885 – 1967
A STREET at night, a silent square
That mirth forbids;
Whose windows, with drawn lips and narrowed lids,
Resent the intruder's stare.
Where winds are cautious in their play,
Where only steals
Some meager brougham on its muffled wheels
Before the portals grey.
But suddenly a window swings,
A hand is laid
For one white moment on the balustrade,
And benediction brings.
I linger . . . but, O influence malign
I watch a snail
Crawl casually along the painted rail,
Where I had built a shrine!
Scheme | ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01110101 1101 1101110101 01011 11110011 1101 1101011101 010101 11000101 0111 11110101 00101 1101110001 1101 11000010101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 519 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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