Analysis of Lydia
Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935
Break forth, break forth, O Sudbury town,
And bid your yards be gay
Up all your gusty streets and down,
For Lydia comes to-day!
I hear it on the wharves below;
And if I buy or sell,
The good folk as they churchward go
Have only this to tell.
My mother, just for love of her,
Unlocks her carvëd drawers;
And springs of withered lavender
Drop down upon the floors.
For Lydia’s bed must have the sheet
Spun out of linen sheer,
And Lydia’s room be passing sweet
With odors of last year.
The violet flags are out once more
In lanes salt with the sea;
The thorn-bush at Saint Martin’s door
Grows white for such as she.
So, Sudbury, bid your gardens blow,
For Lydia comes to-day;
Of all the words that I do know,
I have but this to say.
Scheme | abaB cdcd efef ghgh ijij cBcb |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111101 011111 11110101 1100111 11110101 011111 0111111 110111 11011110 10111 01110100 110101 1111101 111101 0111101 110111 010011111 011101 01111101 111111 11011101 1100111 11011111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 745 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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