Analysis of Bridal Eve
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
GOOD-NIGHT, my Heart, my Heart, good-night--
Oh, good and dear and fair,
With lips of life and eyes of light
And roses in your hair.
To-morrow brings the other crown,
The orange blossoms, Sweet,
And then the rose will be cast down
With lilies at your feet.
But in your soul a garden stands
Where fair the white rose blows--
God, teach my foolish clumsy hands
The way to tend my rose.
That in the white-rose garden still
The lily may bloom fair
God help my heart and soul and will
To keep the lily there.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GBGB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111111 110101 11110111 010011 11010101 010101 01011111 110111 10110101 110111 11110101 011111 10011101 010111 11110101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 496 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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