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The Wonder Of It

Harriet Monroe 1860 (Chicago) – 1936 (Arequipa)

How wild, how witch-like weird that life should be!
That the insensate rock dared dream of me,
And take to bursting out and burgeoning—
Oh, long ago—yo ho!—
And wearing green! How stark and strange a thing
That life should be!

Oh mystic mad, a rigadoon of glee,
That dust should rise, and leap alive, and flee
Afoot, awing, and shake the deeps with cries—
Oh, far away—yo hay!
What moony masque, what arrogant disguise
That life should be!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme aabxbA aacxcA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 451
Words 82
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
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Harriet Monroe

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