Analysis of The Gray Folk
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
THE house, with blind unhappy face,
Stands lonely in the last year's corn,
And in the grayness of the morn
The gray folk come about the place.
By many pathways, gliding gray
They come past meadow, wood, and wold,
Come by the farm and by the fold
From the green fields of yesterday.
Past lock and chain and bolt and bar
They press, to stand about my bed,
And like the faces of the dead
I know their hidden faces are.
They will not leave me in the day
And when night falls they will not go,
Because I silenced, long ago,
The only voice that they obey.
Scheme | ABBA CDDC EFFE CGGC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01110101 11000111 0001101 01110101 1101101 1111101 11010101 1011110 11010101 11110111 01010101 11110101 11111001 01111111 01110101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 557 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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