Analysis of The Point Of View: I
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
There was never winter, summer only: roses,
Pink and white and red,
Shining down the warm rich garden closes;
Quiet trees and lawns of dappled shadow,
Silver lilies, whisper of mignonette,
Cloth-of-gold of buttercups outspread;
Good gold sun that kissed me when we met,
Shadows of floating clouds on sunny meadow.
In the hay-field, scented, grey,
Loving life and love, I lay;
By fresh airs blown, drifted into sleep;
Slept and dreamed there. Winter was the dream.
Summer never was, was always winter only;
Cold and ice and frost
Only, driven by the ice-wind, lonely,
In a world of strangers, in the welter
Of the puddles and the spiteful wind and sleet,
Blinded by the spitting hailstones, lost
In a bitter unfamiliar street,
I found a doorway, crouched there for just shelter,
Crouched and fought in vain for breath,
Cursed the cold and wished for death;
Crouched there, gathered somehow warmth to sleep;
Slept and dreamed there. Summer was the dream.
Scheme | ABACBBXCDDEF GHGIJHJIKKEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010101010 10101 1010111010 10101111 10101011 1111101 111111111 111011101 0011101 1010111 111110011 101110101 10101111010 10101 1010101110 0011100010 10100010101 10101011 00100101 1101111110 1010111 1010111 11101111 101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 940 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 376 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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