Analysis of Mid My Gold-Brown Curls
George Eliot 1819 (Nuneaton, Warwickshire) – 1880 (Chelsea, London)
'Mid my gold-brown curls
There twined a silver hair:
I plucked it idly out
And scarcely knew 'twas there.
Coiled in my velvet sleeve it lay
And like a serpent hissed:
"Me thou canst pluck & fling away,
One hair is lightly missed;
But how on that near day
When all the wintry army muster in array?"
| Scheme | ABCBDEDEDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 11111 110101 111101 010111 10110111 010101 1111101 111101 111111 110101010001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 347 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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