Analysis of After a Reading of “Darkwater”
Elizabeth Curtis Holman 1879 (artford, Connecticut)
I did not think... I did not know...
What pale excuse is this I make
In answer to my brother’s woe,
Age-long, for deep injustice sake!
Across his mute and patient soul,
While I have gone my heedless way,
The shadows of a fate might roll
That deepened night and darkened day.
But I have read a burning page,
That glowed with white and soul-wrung fire,
And now no more I may engage
My conscience with a feeble hire.
For all the wrong I did not heed,
Chance-born in happier paths to live,
I cry unto my brother’s need
One word of love and shame... forgive!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GXGX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11111111 11011111 01011101 11110101 01110101 1111111 0110111 11010101 11110101 111101110 01111101 110101010 11011111 110100111 11101101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 568 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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