Analysis of Grandfather
dame writing i have wooed in vain
you promised riches, gave but pain
i plied thy ear with lilting phrase
gave thee all youth's golden days
love missiles, hundreds; you disdained
to publish one that bore my name
your cold rejections of my lips
are bound in ribbons, stacks of slips
may the muse bear witness of
these pounding temples to our love
the slivered grey in my hirsute
you may have caused, though that is moot
oh shattered dream, oh frittered hour
oh heart that lingers in some bower
hoping still, alas, slack
would'st have this poor but honest hack...
Scheme | AABB XXCC DDEE FFGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11011101 11010111 1111111 1111101 11010101 11011111 11010111 11010111 1011101 110101101 0110101 11111111 110111010 111100110 101011 111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 563 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
Written by my grandfather in 1948
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