Analysis of After Long Years
Arthur Henry Adams 1872 (Lawrence) – 1936 (Sydney, New South Wales)
“AND have I changed?” she asked, and as she spoke
The old smile o'er her pale face bravely broke,
And in her eyes dead worlds of pathos woke.
Changed? When I knew again the ghost of each
Remembered trick of gesture, manner, speech,
And felt the beauty that no years could reach!
“I will go back with you without regret,
For not one word you spoke I dare forget,
And with each kiss of yours I tremble yet!”
“No, you have taken your way; I took mine:
A word may not our severed lives entwine,
Nor will a kiss the shattered years combine!”
She put her arms around me, held me near;
Then forward to her lonely path and drear
She turned her sad, wan face, without a tear.
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0111110111 01110011101 0001111101 1111010111 0101110101 0101011111 1111110101 1111111101 0111111101 1111011111 01111010101 1101010110 1101011111 1101010101 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 708 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 509 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 129 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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