Analysis of somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
Edward Estlin Cummings 1894 (Cambridge, Massachusetts) – 1962 (Madison, New Hampshire)
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose
or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
Scheme | XXAX AXBX XXBC XXXC DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Quatrain (20%) |
Metre | 11110101 10111110 011110111011 111101011111 1101100111 11111110 11011011011110 101011 111111110 1111101 11011110010 0110010010 1011110101110 0101101110 0111011110 100100101110 1111111011110 01100101 011111101110 11001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 912 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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