Analysis of Reserve
Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935
Keep back the one word more,
Nor give of your whole store;
For, it may be, in Art’s sole hour of need,
Lacking that word, you shall be poor indeed.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 110111 111111 11110111011 1011111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 154 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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