Analysis of The Princess of the Poisies
Her face defined my youth
As the first buds of May do Spring
Around the banks of Summers' touch
Beneath the banks enthralled
By heavens larger than the skies immensities
Let the Golden Age recall-
The fertile fields, green with you
She was the Princess of the Poesies
Duchess of the Roses, Maid of Make Believe
And I was, Lord of Hoses, Prince of Soldiers
Knave of Everything.
About the carefree hours holding court
By oak and beehive flowers
Playing at the mercy of a sun
To bold to let our internal candles
Outshine his lofty furry
And we played among the streams
Subjecting them to our wishful natures
We chased the noon mercilessly-
Lovely are the ambitions of the young
Dreaming common daydreams
Blessed by the innocent curiosities
That drives their genius towards
Worlds where nothing dies
We'd battle sleeps inebriations
The dews of starry nights
Where maidens dance
On stars and boys,
Fly like birds whose
Home is where the heart can be
And cats, dogs every insect
We'd come across, spied upon
Our happy excavations
Into the root of prodigious
Joys few remember when
The Lion creeps towards his Winter
We cared little of time, but
Besieged the falling eve with curious
Curses towards nights incessant greed
To have its share of day
Now the days seem ever shorter
Lost in a world where I left her
Dancing enslaved to dream.
Scheme | ABCDEFGEHEBIEJEKEEKLEEEEEEEEEKMNEEOPQERSPPT |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111 10111111 01011101 010101 110101011 101011 0101111 11010101 10101011101 01111101110 1110 010110101 110110 101010101 11111001010 111010 0110101 01011101010 11011000 1010010101 10101 1101000100 1111001 11101 11011 011101 1101 1101 1111 1110111 0111001 1101101 1010010 01011010 110101 010101110 1110111 0101011100 100110101 111111 10111010 10011110 100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,333 |
Words | 234 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 43 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,082 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 234 |
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Submitted on September 30, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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