Analysis of Reading Aloud
Christopher Morley 1890 (Haverford) – 1957
ONCE we read Tennyson aloud
In our great fireside chair;
Between the lines my lips could touch
Her April-scented hair.
How very fond I was, to think
The printed poems fair,
When close within my arms I held
A living lyric there!
| Scheme | XAXA XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110001 0101101 01011111 010101 11011111 010101 11011111 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 234 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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