Analysis of The Bracelet of Grass
William Vaughn Moody 1869 – 1910
The opal heart of afternoon
Was clouding on to throbs of storm,
Ashen within the ardent west
The lips of thunder muttered harm,
And as a bubble like to break
Hung heaven's trembling amethyst,
When with the sedge-grass by the lake
I braceleted her wrist.
And when the ribbon grass was tied,
Sad with the happiness we planned,
Palm linked in palm we stood awhile
And watched the raindrops dot the sand;
Until the anger of the breeze
Chid all the lake's bright breathing down,
And ravished all the radiancies
From her deep eyes of brown.
We gazed from shelter on the storm,
And through out hearts swept ghostly pain
To see the shards of day sweep past,
Broken, and none might mend again.
Broken, that none shall ever mend;
Loosened, that none shall ever tie.
O the wind and the wind, will it never end?
O the sweeping past of the ruined sky!
Scheme | XAXXBCBC XDXDEFEF AXXX GHGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101 11011111 10010101 01110101 01010111 110100100 11011101 1101 01010111 11010011 11011101 0101101 01010101 11011101 01101 101111 11110101 01111101 11011111 10011101 10111101 10111101 10100111101 1010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 846 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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