Analysis of Interlude
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell 1887 (Scarborough) – 1964 (Weedon Lois)
Mid this hot green glowing gloom
A word falls with a raindrop's boom...
Like baskets of ripe fruit in air
The bird-songs seem, suspended where
Those goldfinches--the ripe warm lights
Peck slyly at them--take quick flights.
My feet are feathered like a bird
Among the shadows scarcely heard;
I bring you branches green with dew
And fruits that you may crown anew
Your whirring waspish-gilded hair
Amid this cornucopia--
Until your warm lips bear the stains
And bird-blood leap within your veins.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 0111011 11011101 01110101 1100111 11011111 11110101 0101101 11110111 01111101 1101101 0110100 01111101 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 489 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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