Analysis of To a Friend
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
I ask but one thing of you, only one,
That always you will be my dream of you;
That never shall I wake to find untrue
All this I have believed and rested on,
Forever vanished, like a vision gone
Out into the night. Alas, how few
There are who strike in us a chord we knew
Existed, but so seldom heard its tone
We tremble at the half-forgotten sound.
The world is full of rude awakenings
And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground,
Yet still our human longing vainly clings
To a belief in beauty through all wrongs.
O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 111111111 1101111101 1111010101 0101010101 101010111 1111010111 0101110111 1101010101 0111111 01011010101 11101010101 1001010111 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 575 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 444 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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