Analysis of The Intruder
Christopher Morley 1890 (Haverford) – 1957
AS I sat, to sift my dreaming
To the meet and needed word,
Came a merry Interruption
With insistence to be heard.
Smiling stood a maid beside me,
Half alluring and half shy;
Soft the white hint of her bosom-
Escapade was in her eye.
'I must not be so invaded,'
(IN anger then I cried)-
'Can't you see that I am busy?
Tempting creature, stay outside!
'Pearly rascal, I am writing:
I am now composing verse-
Fie on antic invitation:
Wanton, vanish-fly-disperse!
'Baggage, in my godlike moment
What have I to do with thee?'
And she laughed as she departed-
'I am Poetry,' said she.
| Scheme | ABCB DEXE FGDG AHCH XDFD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111110 1010101 1010010 1010111 10101011 1010011 10111010 101001 11111010 010111 11111110 1010111 10101110 1110101 1110010 1010101 1001110 1111111 01111010 1110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 582 |
| Words | 111 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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