Analysis of To a Silent Girl
Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant 1864 (Bridgwater, Somerset) – 1902 (Pretoria)
When the sklll'd fashioner of female faces
Designed your mask, he wrought with cunning fist,
And made a mouth expressly to be kiss'd -
Not for shrill utterance nor pert grimaces.
The curved, ripe lips-above the rounded chin -
He dyed the hue of summer's reddest rose,
Then placed a smile upon them to disclose
A glimpse of white and even pearls within.
Those lips are silent, sweetheart! - but your eyes
Are eloquent, and they love's lesson teach
Better than other woman's aptest speech -
In their soft light the tend'rest language lies.
In womankind - the world has long confess'd -
A silent mouth and speaking eyes are best.
| Scheme | XAAX BCCB DEED FF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111110 0111111101 0101010111 11110011100 0111010101 1101110101 1101011101 0111010101 111101111 1100011101 101101011 0111011101 01011101 0101010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 633 |
| Words | 113 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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