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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