Analysis of Out Of Hope
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
IF through the rain and wind along the street,
Where the wet stone reflects the flickering gas,
Some weeping autumn night your wandering feet,
Lost in a lonely world, should chance to pass;
If, passing many doors that welcomed you
When robes of good renown your dear name wore,
Your feet again, as once they used to do,
Paused at my door,--
Should I shut fast my heart for the old ill,
The old wrong done, the sorrow and the sin?
Or--only knowing that I love you still--
Should I throw wide the door and let you in?
Come--with your sins--my tears shall wash them all,
The heart you broke still waits to be your home.
Yet if you came. . . . Oh! lost beyond recall
You never more will come.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 10110101001 11010111001 1001011111 1101011101 1111011111 1101111111 1111 1111111011 0111010001 1101011111 1111010110 1111111111 0111111111 111111011 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 696 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 263 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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