Analysis of Improvisations: Light And Snow: 05
Conrad Potter Aiken 1889 (Savannah, Georgia) – 1973 (Savannah, Georgia)
When I was a boy, and saw bright rows of icicles
In many lengths along a wall
I was dissappointed to find
That I could not play music upon them:
I ran my hand lightly across them
And they fell, tinkling.
I tell you this, young man, so that your expectations of life
Will not be too great.
| Scheme | ABCDDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101111100 01010101 11111 1111110011 111110011 011100 11111111101011 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 289 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 224 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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