Analysis of Nora on the Pavement
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
As Nora on the pavement
Dances, and she entrances the grey hour
Into the laughing circle of her power,
The magic circle of her glances,
As Nora dances on the midnight pavement;
Petulant and bewildered,
Thronging desires and longing looks recur,
And memorably re-incarnate her,
As I remember that old longing,
A footlight fancy, petulant and bewildered;
There where the ballet circles,
See her, but ah! not free her from the race
Of glittering lines that link and interlace;
This colour now, now that, may be her,
In the bright web of those harmonious circles.
But what are these dance-measures,
Leaping and joyous, keeping time alone
With Life's capricious rhythm, and all her own,
Life's rhythm and hers, long sleeping,
That wakes, and knows not why, in these dance-measures?
It is the very Nora;
Child, and most blithe, and wild as any elf,
And innocently spendthrift of herself,
And guileless and most unbeguiled,
Herself at last, leaps free the very Nora.
It is the soul of Nora,
Living at last, and giving forth to the night,
Bird-like, the burden of its own delight,
All its desire, and all the joy of living,
In that blithe madness of the soul of Nora.
Scheme | ABBXA CBBDC EFFBE GHHDG IJJAI IKKDI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 10011000110 01010101010 010101010 1101010110 1000010 1010010101 0100010100 110101110 01101000010 1100110 1011110101 1100111001 11111110 001111010010 1111110 1001010101 11010100101 11000110 11011101110 1101010 1011011101 010001101 010011 01111101010 1101110 10110101101 1101011101 110100101110 01110101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,143 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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