Analysis of Lilah, alice, hypatia
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
To Alice and Hypatia Bradlaugh
Who was Lilah? I am sure
She was young and sweet and pure;
With the forehead wise men love,-
Here a lucid dawn above
Broad curved brows, and twilight there,
Under the deep dusk of hair.
And her eyes? I cannot say
Whether brown, or blue, or grey:
I have seen them brown, and blue,
And a soft green grey-the hue
Shakespeare loved (and he was wise):
'Grey as glass' were Silvia's eyes.
So to Lilah's name above
I will add two names I love,
Linking with the bracket curls
Three sweet names of three sweet girls:-
Sunday of Saint Valentine,
Eighteen hundred sixty-nine.
Scheme | A BBAACCDDEEFF AAGGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110011 1110111 1110101 1010111 1010101 111011 1001111 0011101 1011111 1111101 0011101 110111 111011 111101 1111111 1010101 1111111 11110 0110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 585 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 12, 6 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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