Analysis of Pastel: Masks and Faces
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
The light of our cigarettes
Went and came in the gloom:
It was dark in the little room.
Dark, and then, in the dark,
Sudden, a flash, a glow,
And a hand and a ring I know.
And then, through the dark, a flush
Ruddy and vague, the grace
(A rose!) of her lyric face.
| Scheme | XAA XBB XCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111001 101001 11100101 101001 100101 00100111 0110101 100101 0110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 263 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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