Analysis of Generations
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
You are like the stem
Of a young beech-tree,
Straight and swaying,
Breaking out in golden leaves.
Your walk is like the blowing of a beech-tree
On a hill.
Your voice is like leaves
Softly struck upon by a South wind.
Your shadow is no shadow, but a scattered sunshine;
And at night you pull the sky down to you
And hood yourself in stars.
But I am like a great oak under a cloudy sky,
Watching a stripling beech grow up at my feet.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 10111 1010 1010101 11110101011 101 11111 101011011 1111110101 0111101111 010101 1111011100101 10010111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 427 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 2 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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