Analysis of White Heliotrope
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
The feverish room and that white bed,
The tumbled skirts upon a chair,
The novel flung half-open where
Hat, hair-pins, puffs, and paints, are spread;
The mirror that has sucked your face
Into its secret deep of deeps,
And there mysteriously keeps
Forgotten memories of grace;
And you, half-dressed and half awake,
Your slant eyes strangely watching me,
And I, who watch you drowsily,
With eyes that, having slept not, ache;
This (need one dread? nay, dare one hope?)
Will rise, a ghost of memory, if
Ever again my handkerchief
Is scented with White Heliotrope.
Scheme | ABBA CCXC DXXD EFFE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 010010111 01010101 01011101 11110111 01011111 01110111 0110001 01010011 01110101 11110101 011111 11110111 11111111 110111001 10011100 11011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 556 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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