Analysis of The Green Bowl

Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)



This little bowl is like a mossy pool
In a Spring wood, where dogtooth violets grow
Nodding in chequered sunshine of the trees;
A quiet place, still, with the sound of birds,
Where, though unseen, is heard the endless song
And murmur of the never resting sea.
'T was winter, Roger, when you made this cup,
But coming Spring guided your eager hand
And round the edge you fashioned young green leaves,
A proper chalice made to hold the shy
And little flowers of the woods. And here
They will forget their sad uprooting, lost
In pleasure that this circle of bright leaves
Should be their setting; once more they will dream
They hear winds wandering through lofty trees
And see the sun smiling between the leaves.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLIMCI
Poetic Form
Metre 110111011 0011111001 10011101 0101110111 1101110101 0101010101 11101011111 1101101101 0101110111 0101011101 0101010101 1101110101 0101110111 1111011111 1111001101 0101100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 717
Words 129
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 566
Words per stanza (avg) 127
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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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