Analysis of Blue Girls
John Crowe Ransom 1888 (Pulaski) – 1974 (Gambier)
Twirling your blue skirts, travelling the sward
Under the towers of your seminary,
Go listen to your teachers old and contrary
Without believing a word.
Tie the white fillets then about your hair
And think no more of what will come to pass
Than bluebirds that go walking on the grass
And chattering on the air.
Practice your beauty, blue girls, before it fail;
And I will cry with my loud lips and publish
Beauty which all our power shall never establish,
It is so frail.
For I could tell you a story which is true;
I know a woman with a terrible tongue,
Blear eyes fallen from blue,
All her perfections tarnished -- yet it is not long
Since she was lovelier than any of you.
Scheme | XAAX BCCB DEED FXFXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110001 1001011100 110111010100 0101001 1011010111 0111111111 111110101 0100101 10110110111 01111111010 10111010110010 1111 11111010111 11010101001 111011 1011011111 111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 683 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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