Analysis of Survival
Edith Wharton 1862 (New York City) – 1937 (Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt)
When you and I, like all things kind or cruel,
The garnered days and light evasive hours,
Are gone again to be a part of flowers
And tears and tides, in life’s divine renewal,
If some grey eve to certain eyes should wear
A deeper radiance than mere light can give,
Some silent page abruptly flush and live,
May it not be that you and I are there?
| Scheme | ABBA CXXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11011111110 01010101010 11011101110 01010101010 1111110111 01010011111 1101010101 1111110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 349 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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