Analysis of Improvisations: Light And Snow: 09
Conrad Potter Aiken 1889 (Savannah, Georgia) – 1973 (Savannah, Georgia)
This girl gave her heart to me,
And this, and this.
This one looked at me as if she loved me,
And silently walked away.
This one I saw once and loved, and never saw her again.
Shall I count them for you upon my fingers?
Or like a priest solemnly sliding beads?
Or pretend they are roses, pale pink, yellow, and white,
And arrange them for you in a wide bowl
To be set in sunlight?
See how nicely it sounds as I count them for you —
‘This girl gave her heart to me
And this, and this, . . . !
And nevertheless, my heart breaks when I think of them,
When I think their names,
And how, like leaves, they have changed and blown
And will lie, at last, forgotten,
Under the snow.
Scheme | ABacdefghgiABjklmn |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 0101 1111111111 0100101 11111010101001 11111101110 1101100101 1011110111001 0011110011 11101 111011111111 1110111 0101 000111111111 11111 011111101 01111010 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 668 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 506 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 137 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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