Analysis of Chance Meetings
Conrad Potter Aiken 1889 (Savannah, Georgia) – 1973 (Savannah, Georgia)
In the mazes of loitering people, the watchful and furtive,
The shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves,
In the drowse of the sunlight, among the low voices,
I suddenly face you,
Your dark eyes return for a space from her who is with you,
They shine into mine with a sunlit desire,
They say an 'I love you, what star do you live on?'
They smile and then darken,
And silent, I answer 'You too-I have known you,-I love you!-'
And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves
Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight
To divide us forever
Scheme | XAXB BCXX BAXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010110010010010 011110111 001101010110 110011 11101101101111 11011101010 111111111111 110110 010110111111111 0011110111 0111100101 1011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 552 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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