Analysis of A Quoi Bon Dire
Charlotte Mary Mew 1869 (Bloomsbury, London) – 1928 (London)
Seventeen years ago you said
Something that sounded like Good-bye;
And everybody thinks that you are dead,
But I.
So I, as I grow stiff and cold
To this and that say Good-bye too;
And everybody sees that I am old
But you.
And one fine morning in a sunny lane
Some boy and girl will meet and kiss and swear
That nobody can love their way again
While over there
You will have smiled, I shall have tossed your hair.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110111 10110111 010011111 11 11111101 11011111 010011111 11 0111000101 1101110101 11111101 1101 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 410 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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