Analysis of As It Is
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
If you and I
Had wings to fly -
Great wings like seagulls' wings -
How would we soar
Above the roar
Of loud unneeded things!
We two would rise
Through changing skies
To blue unclouded space,
And undismayed
And unafraid
Meet the sun face to face.
But wings we know not;
The feathers grow not
To carry us so high;
And low in the gloom
Of a little room
We weep and say good-bye.
Scheme | AABCCB DDEFFE FFAGGA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 1111 11111 1111 0101 110101 1111 1101 1111 01 001 101111 11111 01011 110111 01001 10101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 366 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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