Analysis of Toys
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
I have laid you away as we lay
The toys of a little dead child,
You know you are safe in my heart;
You know I have set you apart
In my heart, and hid you away,
Because joy that prattled and smiled
In the heart becomes grief to the heart,
Laying its youth away
With the toys of a little dead child.
| Scheme | ABCCABCAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
| Metre | 111101111 01101011 11111011 11111101 01101101 01111001 001011101 101101 101101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 297 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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