Analysis of Faute De Mieux
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
WHEN the corn is green and the poppies red
And the fields are crimson with love-lies-bleeding,
When the elms are black deep overhead
And the shade lies cool where the calves are feeding,
When the blackbird whistles the song of June,
When kine knee-deep in the pond are drowsing,
Leave pastoral peace--come up through the noon
To the high chalk downs where the sheep are browsing.
Oh! sweet to dream in the noontide heat,
On the scented bed of thyme and clover,
With the air from the sea, blown keen and sweet,
And the wings of the wide sky folded over,
While, far in the blue, the skylark sings,
Renounce desire and renounce endeavour,
Forget life's little unworthy things
And dream that the dream will last for ever.
The love of your life, in your heart's hid shrine,
With its gifts and its torments, leave it sighing,
And I will bury the pain of mine
In the selfsame grave where its joy is lying.
Let me hold your hand for a quiet hour
In the wild thyme's scent and the clear blue weather,
Then come what may, we have plucked one flower,
This hour on the downs alone together.
Scheme | ABABCBCB DEDEFEFE GBGBEEEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011100101 00111011110 101111101 00111101110 1010100111 111100111 1100111101 10111101110 11110011 1010111010 1011011101 00110111010 11001011 01010001010 011100101 0110111110 0111101111 1110111110 011100111 0011111110 11111101010 00111001110 1111111110 11010101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,086 |
Words | 201 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 282 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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