Analysis of Daisy
Richard Aldington 1892 (Portsmouth) – 1962
Plus quan se atque suos amavit omnes,
nunc...
- Catullus
You were my playmate by the sea.
We swam together.
Your girl's body had no breasts.
We found prawns among the rocks;
We liked to feel the sun and to do nothing;
In the evening we played games with the others.
It made me glad to be by you.
Sometimes I kissed you,
And you were always glad to kiss me;
But I was afraid - I was only fourteen.
And I had quite forgotten you,
You and your name.
To-day I pass through the streets.
She who touches my arms and talks with me
Is - who knows? - Helen of Sparta,
Dryope, Laodamia ...
And there are you
A whore in Oxford Street.
Scheme | ABA AXA ABA C CDX CX ADXD CX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 1 1 1011101 11010 1110111 1110101 11110101110 00101111010 11111111 01111 01011111 11101111011 01110101 1011 1111101 1110110111 11110110 11 0111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 630 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 1, 3, 2, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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