Analysis of White Magic
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
This is the room to which she came,
And Spring itself came with her;
She stirred the fire of life to flame,
She called all music hither.
Her glance upon the lean white walls
Hung them with cloth of splendour,
And still the rose she dropped recalls
The graces that attend her.
The same poor room, so dull and bare
Before, in consecration,
She breathed upon its common air
The true transfiguration . . .?
This room the same to which she came
For one immortal minute? -
How can it ever be the same
Since she has once been in it!
Scheme | ABABCBCB DEDEAXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 0101110 110101111 1111010 01010111 111111 0101111 0101010 01111101 010010 11011101 011 11011111 1101010 11110101 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 518 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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