Analysis of If Hands Could Free you, Heart
Philip Larkin 1922 (Coventry) – 1985 (Hull)
If hands could free you, heart,
Where would you fly?
Far, beyond every part
Of earth this running sky
Makes desolate? Would you cross
City and hill and sea,
If hands could set you free?
I would not lift the latch;
For I could run
Through fields, pit-valleys, catch
All beauty under the sun--
Still end in loss:
I should find no bent arm, no bed
To rest my head.
| Scheme | ABABCDD EFEFCGG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 1111 1011001 111101 1100111 100101 111111 111101 1111 111101 1101001 1101 11111111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 348 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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