Analysis of Lydia Is Gone This Many A Year
Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935
Lydia is gone this many a year,
Yet when the lilacs stir,
In the old gardens far or near,
The house is full of her.
They climb the twisted chamber stair;
Her picture haunts the room;
On the carved shelf beneath it there,
They heap the purple bloom.
A ghost so long has Lydia been,
Her cloak upon the wall,
Broidered, and gilt, and faded green,
Seems not her cloak at all.
The book, the box on mantel laid,
The shells in a pale row,
Are those of some dim little maid,
A thousand years ago.
And yet the house is full of her;
She goes and comes again;
And longings thrill, and memories stir,
Like lilacs in the rain.
Out in their yards the neighbors walk,
Among the blossoms tall;
Of Anne, of Phyllis, do they talk,
Of Lydia not at all.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE FGFG BXBX HEHE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 1001111001 11011 00110111 011110 11010101 010101 10110111 110101 011111001 010101 1010101 110111 01011101 010011 11111101 010101 01011110 110101 010101001 11001 10110101 010101 11110111 1100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 718 |
Words | 145 |
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) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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