Analysis of To Herself Alone
The enigma of a woman veiled
in what you’ll never know
Despite those things she gives to you,
her secrets bide unshown
Your eyes may taste and hands might touch,
but to herself alone
Her power worn as though a crown
—her mystery, her throne
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001010101 011101 01111111 01011 11110111 110101 01011101 010001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 274 |
Words | 49 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 18, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 09, 2019
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