Analysis of Improvisations: Light And Snow: 13
Conrad Potter Aiken 1889 (Savannah, Georgia) – 1973 (Savannah, Georgia)
My heart is an old house, and in that forlorn old house,
In the very centre, dark and forgotten,
Is a locked room where an enchanted princess
Lies sleeping.
But sometimes, in that dark house,
As if almost from the stars, far away,
Sounds whisper in that secret room —
Faint voices, music, a dying trill of laughter?
And suddenly, from her long sleep,
The beautiful princess awakes and dances.
Who is she? I do not know.
Why does she dance? Do not ask me! —
Yet to-day, when I saw you,
When I saw your eyes troubled with the trouble of happiness,
And your mouth trembling into a smile,
And your fingers pull shyly forward, —
Softly, in that room,
The little princess arose
And danced;
And as she danced the old house gravely trembled
With its vague and delicious secret.
Scheme | ABCDAEFGHIJKLMNOFPQRS |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110010111 00101010010 10111101010 110 1010111 111101101 11001101 110100101110 01001011 0100101010 1111111 11111111 1111111 111111010101100 0111000101 011011010 10011 0101001 01 01110111010 111001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 763 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 596 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 142 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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