Analysis of Villanelle Of Marguerite's
Ernest Christopher Dowson 1867 – 1900
'A little, _passionately, not at all?_'
She casts the snowy petals on the air:
And what care we how many petals fall!
Nay, wherefore seek the seasons to forestall?
It is but playing, and she will not care,
A little, passionately, not at all!
She would not answer us if we should call
Across the years: her visions are too fair;
And what care we how many petals fall!
She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall
With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair,
A little, passionately, not at all!
Knee-deep she goes in meadow grasses tall,
Kissed by the daisies that her fingers tear:
And what care we how many petals fall!
We pass and go: but she shall not recall
What men we were, nor all she made us bear:
'_A little, passionately, not at all!_'
And what care we how many petals fall!
Scheme | abA abA abA abA abA abaA |
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Poetic Form | Villanelle (70%) |
Metre | 0101111 1101010101 0111110101 111010101 1111001111 0101000111 1111011111 0101010111 0111110101 111111111 1101010101 0101000111 111101101 1101010101 0111110101 110111111 1110111111 1101000111 0111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 772 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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