Analysis of White Sunshine
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
The sun's my fire.
Golden, from a magnificence of blue,
Should be its hue.
But woolly clouds,
Like boarding-house old ladies, come and sit
In front of it.
White sunshine, then,
That has the frosty glimmer of white hair,
Freezes the air.
They must forget,
So self-absorbed are they, so very old,
That I'll be cold.
| Scheme | ABBCDDEFFGHH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110 1010111 1111 1101 1101110101 0111 111 1101010111 1001 1101 1101111101 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 321 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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