Analysis of Parvenu
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
Where does Cinderella sleep?
By far-off day-dream river.
A secret place her burning Prince
Decks, while his heart-strings quiver.
Homesick for our cinder world,
Her low-born shoulders shiver;
She longs for sleep in cinders curled—
We, for the day-dream river.
| Scheme | XAXA BABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 110101 1111110 01010101 1111110 1110101 0111010 11110101 1101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 262 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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