Analysis of Town And Country
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
THE Sun tells to Trafalgar Square
His old and radiant story,
And touches in the young spring air
The pepper-pots to glory.
Spring's robe down Piccadilly floats,
The parks glow with her treasure,
And button-holes of morning coats
Rhyme with her royal pleasure.
Now persons beautifully dressed
In Bond-street shop and saunter,
And town--by Spring's soft breath caressed--
Would as its mistress vaunt her.
But far away from square and street,
Where willows shine and shiver,
The splendour of her silver feet
Is on the wood and river.
She laughs among the tree-roots brown,
Among the dewy clover,
For Spring coquets but with the town;
The country is her lover.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EDED FDFD GDGD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01110101 11010010 01000111 0101110 1111001 0111010 01011101 1101010 1101001 0111010 01111101 1111010 11011101 111010 0110101 1101010 11010111 0101010 1111101 0101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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