Analysis of Her Face And Brow
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
Ah, help me! but her face and brow
Are lovelier than lilies are
Beneath the light of moon and star
That smile as they are smiling now--
White lilies in a pallid swoon
Of sweetest white beneath the moon--
White lilies, in a flood of bright
Pure lucidness of liquid light
Cascading down some plenilune,
When all the azure overhead
Blooms like a dazzling daisy-bed.--
So luminous her face and brow,
The luster of their glory, shed
In memory, even, blinds me now.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 111101 01011101 11111101 11000101 11010101 11000111 111101 010111 11010101 110100101 11000101 01011101 010010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 454 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 360 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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