Analysis of White Lilies



My poetic well upt and gone dry
Been twenty years passing dark down,
Keep peeking, mud bucket in eye
As time echoes life, spirals sound;
Cobwebs like crocheted kerchiefs,
Baracade parades of insects pleasure
White lilies bloom brings promise of grief,
And I, just a poet, in well's measure...
Darn wooden splinters again, my foe!
As my bucket chimes with rope in tune;
I descry, this well, my grave, I know
Those white lilies will bloom again soon.


Scheme ABACDEFEGHGH
Poetic Form
Metre 101011011 11011011 11011001 11101101 110110 1011110 110111011 0110100110 11010111 111011101 11111111 111011011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 437
Words 78
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 352
Words per stanza (avg) 78
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Christine Elaine Gwaltney

Born 11/28/1966 Passaic, NJI grew up in a small town northeastern PA. Poetry is my first love. I am inspired by Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Donne. I feel misplaced in this time. I long for the 1800's. I hope you enjoy my poetry as much as I do. Much of what I say is mostly unspoken.... more…

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