Analysis of Surrender II
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
THE wild wind wails in the poplar tree,
I sit here alone.
O heart of my heart, come hither to me!
Come to me straight over land and sea,
My soul--my own!
Not now--the clock's slow tick I hear,
And nothing more.
The year is dying, the leaves are sere,
No ghost of the beautiful young crowned year
Knocks at my door.
But one of these nights, a wild, late night,
I, waiting within,
Shall hear your hand on the latch--and spite
Of prudence and folly and wrong and right,
I shall let you in.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011100101 11101 1111111011 111110101 1111 11011111 0101 011100111 1110100111 1111 111110111 11001 111110101 1100100101 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 494 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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