Analysis of A Face In A Book
Richard Le Gallienne 1866 (Liverpool) – 1947
In an old book I found her face
Writ by a dead man long ago -
I found, and then I lost the place;
So nothing but her face I know,
And her soft name writ fair below.
Even if she lived I cannot learn,
Or but a dead man's dream she were;
Page after yellow page I turn,
But cannot come again to her,
Although I know she must be there.
On other books of other men,
Far in the night, year-long, I pore,
Hoping to find her face again,
Too fair a face to see no more -
And 'twas so soft a name she bore.
Sometimes I think the book was Youth,
And the dead man that wrote it I,
The face was Beauty, the name Truth -
And thus, with an unseeing eye,
I pass the long-sought image by.
Scheme | ABABB CDCDX EFEFF GHGHH |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01111101 11011101 11011101 11010111 00111101 101111101 11011110 11010111 11010110 1111111 11011101 10011111 10110101 11011111 01110111 01110111 00111111 01110011 011111 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 660 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 15, 2023
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