Analysis of Womanhood.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
She feels the world, it touches her
Like a weird thing she needs must know,
While all her fears and fancies stir
As in a death-dream long ago.
She has passed from her youth to this —
A woman grown with misty eyes,
Knowing the world no nunnery is
For the heart stripped of its disguise.
Her feet now pace a thorny path
Where mournful hopes like fiends confer,
And e'en the power her beauty hath
Seems one with what would ruin her.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011100 10111111 11010101 10011101 11110111 01011101 100111001 10111101 01110101 11011101 0110100101 11111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 428 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 337 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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