Analysis of Charms



She walks as lightly as the fly
Skates on the water in July.

To hear her moving petticoat
For me is music's highest note.

Stones are not heard, when her feet pass,
No more than tumps of moss or grass.

When she sits still, she's like the flower
To be a butterfly next hour.

The brook laughs not more sweet, when he
Trips over pebbles suddenly.
My Love, like him, can whisper low --
When he comes where green cresses grow.

She rises like the lark, that hour
He goes halfway to meet a shower.

A fresher drink is in her looks
Than Nature gives me, or old books.

When I in my Love's shadow sit,
I do not miss the sun one bit.

When she is near, my arms can hold
All that's worth having in this world.

And when I know not where she is,
Nothing can come but comes amiss.


Scheme AA BB CC DD EEFF DD GG HH XX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 11110101 1101001 1101010 11110101 11111011 11111111 111111010 11010110 01111111 11010100 11111101 11111101 110101110 111111010 01011001 11011111 1101111 11110111 11111111 11110011 01111111 10111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 761
Words 155
Sentences 12
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Henry Davies

William Henry Davies or W H Davies was a Welsh poet and writer Davies spent a significant part of his life as a tramp or vagabond in the United States and United Kingdom but became known as one of the most popular poets of his time The principal themes in his work are the marvels of nature observations about lifes hardships his own tramping adventures and the various characters he met Davies is usually considered as one of the Georgian poets although much of his work is atypical of the style and themes adopted by others of the genre more…

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