Analysis of To Lady Jane
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
Romance was always young.
You come today
Just eight years old
With marvellous dark hair.
Younger than Dante found you
When you turned
His heart into the way
That found the heavenly stair.
Perhaps we must be strangers.
I confess
My soul this hour is Dante's,
And your care
Should be for dolls
Whose painted hands caress
Your marvellous dark hair.
Romance, with moonflower face
And morning eyes,
And lips whose thread of scarlet prophesies
The canticles of a coming king unknown,
Remember, when you join him
On his throne,
Even me, your far off troubadour,
And wear
For me some trifling rose
Beneath your veil,
Dying a royal death,
Happy and pale,
Choked by the passion,
The wonder and the snare,
The glory and despair
That still will haunt and own
Your marvellous dark hair.
Scheme | xaxbxxab xcxbxcB xddexexbxfxfxbbeB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111 1101 1111 1111 1011011 111 110101 1101001 0111110 101 11110110 011 1111 110101 1111 01111 0101 0111110100 011010101 0101111 111 10111110 01 111101 0111 100101 1001 11010 010001 010001 111101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 750 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 7, 17 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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