Cousin Nancy

T. S. Eliot 1888 (St. Louis, Missouri, United States) – 1965 (Kensington)



Miss Nancy Ellicott
Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them—
The barren New England hills—
Riding to hounds        
Over the cow-pasture.
 
Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.  
 
Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith,
The army of unalterable law.
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Submitted by halel on July 13, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAAXXX XXXX XXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 430
Words 75
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 4, 3

T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was an American-British poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work and marry there. more…

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