Analysis of Fairy Tale (2)

Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)



Now folds the Tree of Day its perfect flowers,
And every bloom becomes a bud again,
Shut and sealed up against the golden showers
Of bees that hover in the velvet hours....
     Now a strain
Wild and mournful blown from shadow towers,
Echoed from shadow ships upon the foam,
Proclaims the Queen of Night.
     From their bowers
The dark Princess fluttering, wing their flight
To their old Mother, in her huge old home.


Scheme ABAACADEAED
Poetic Form
Metre 11011110110 01001010101 10110101010 11110001010 101 101011110 101110101 010111 1110 0110100111 1111000111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 416
Words 75
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 324
Words per stanza (avg) 73
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. more…

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