Analysis of The Goldfinch
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
When dandelions star the fields
Another alien singer, I,
Nursed upon England's flowery wealds,
Seeking no tithe of treasured yields,
dropp sudden from a summer sky
To where the spangled clearing spills
Its gold about your timbered hills.
A mite in splendid motley clad,
I mark the field, I know the hour
When choicest morsels may be had;
When blooms are gay, when days are glad,
And thistledown wafts in a shower
To dance and drift and disappear,
I, who was not, am with you here.
I cling beside the thistle head,
I dance about your cattle's feet,
I revel in the banquet spread
By many a blazing yellow bed,
And feast until I am replete;
Then seek the house roof's topmost tile
To linger yet a little while.
No ingrate I, no niggard churl
Tho' what I take you well may spare
Ere azure skies have grown to pearl,
With many a grace-note, many a skirl,
I pay gold coin for golden fare,
And profer an abundant fee
In long sweet bursts of melody.
Scheme | ABAABCC DEDDEXX FGFFGHH HIXHIJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100101 010100101 101101001 10111101 11010101 11010101 1101111 01010101 110111010 11010111 11111111 0110010 1101001 11111111 11010101 1101111 11000101 110010101 01011101 1101111 11010101 1111101 11111111 11011111 1100111001 11111101 0110101 01111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 924 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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