Analysis of Prelude
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
OUT of the west when the sun was dying
Clouds of white wings came flying, flying,
Wheeling and whirling they swept away
Into the heart of the eastern gray;
But one white dove came straight to my breast
Out of the west.
Into the west when the dawn was pearly
Clouds of white wings went, dewy-early,
Straight from the world of the waning stars;
O beating pinions! O prison bars!
My dove flies free no more with the rest
Into the west.
Scheme | AABBCC DDEECC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101110 111111010 100101101 010110101 111111111 1101 0101101110 111111010 110110101 11011101 111111101 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 440 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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