Analysis of Fool's Money Bags

Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)



Outside the long window,
With his head on the stone sill,
The dog is lying,
Gazing at his Beloved.
His eyes are wet and urgent,
And his body is taut and shaking.
It is cold on the terrace;
A pale wind licks along the stone slabs,
But the dog gazes through the glass
And is content.

The Beloved is writing a letter.
Occasionally she speaks to the dog,
But she is thinking of her writing.
Does she, too, give her devotion to one
Not worthy?


Scheme XXAXXAXXXX XXAXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 110110 1111011 01110 101101 1111010 011011010 1111010 011101011 10110101 0110 001110010 0100011101 111101010 1111001011 110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 432
Words 87
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 10, 5
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 170
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Amy Lowell

Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. more…

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