Analysis of To L. H. B. (1894-1915 )
Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)
Last night for the first time since you were dead
I walked with you, my brother, in a dream.
We were at home again beside the stream
Fringed with tall berry bushes, white and red.
"Don't touch them: they are poisonous," I said.
But your hand hovered, and I saw a beam
Of strange, bright laughter flying round your head
And as you stooped I saw the berries gleam.
"Don't you remember? We called them Dead Man's
Bread!"
I woke and heard the wind moan and the roar
Of the dark water tumbling on the shore.
Where--where is the path of my dream for my eager
feet?
By the remembered stream my brother stands
Waiting for me with berries in his hands...
"These are my body. Sister, take and eat."
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111101 1111110001 1011010101 1111010101 1111110011 1111001101 1111010111 0111110101 1101011111 1 1101011001 10110100101 111011111110 1 1001011101 1011110011 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 707 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 527 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 132 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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