Analysis of Where?
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)
My snowy eupatorium has dropped
Its silver threads of petals in the night;
No signal told its blossoming had stopped;
Its seed-films flutter silent, ghostly white:
No answer stirs the shining air,
As I ask, "Where?"
Beneath the glossy leaves of winter-green
Dead lilly-bells lie low, and in their place
A rounded disk of pearly pink is seen,
Which tells not of the lily's fragrant grace:
No answer stirs the shining air,
As I ask, "Where?"
This morning's sunrise does not show to me
Seed-film or fruit of my sweet yesterday;
Like falling flowers, to realms I cannot see
Its moments floated silently away:
No answer stirs the shining air,
As I ask, "Where?"
Scheme | ababCC dedeCC fgfgCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 1101110001 1101110011 1111010101 11010101 1111 0101011101 1101110011 0101110111 111101101 11010101 1111 110111111 111111110 11010111101 1101010001 11010101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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