Analysis of She Tells Her Love
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
She tells her love while half asleep,
In the dark hours,
With half-words whispered low:
As Earth stirs in her winter sleep
And put out grass and flowers
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.
| Scheme | ABCABCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101 00110 111101 11100101 0111010 0101 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 198 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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