Analysis of At The Play.
Charles Hamilton Musgrove 1871 (Kentucky) – 1926
The poet painted a woman's soul,
Human, trusting and kind,
And then he drew the soul of a man,
Brutal and base and blind;
And the woman loved in the old, old way,
And the man in the way of men,
And the poet christened their lives "A Play,"
And he sat down to watch it, and then ...
A woman rose with a bitter laugh,
And her eyes were as dry as stone
As she bowed her head at the poet's stall
And said in a strange, cold tone:
"He paints the best who has dipped his brush
In the heart's own blood, they say;
You took my love and you took my life,
But you gave the world--a play!"
Scheme | XAXA BCBC XDXD XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010100101 101001 011101101 100101 0010100111 00100111 0010101101 011111101 010110101 00101111 1110110101 0100111 110111111 0011111 111101111 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 572 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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