Analysis of Improvisations: Light And Snow: 02
Conrad Potter Aiken 1889 (Savannah, Georgia) – 1973 (Savannah, Georgia)
I stood for a long while before the shop window
Looking at the blue butterflies embroidered on tawny silk.
The building was a tower before me,
Time was loud behind me,
Sun went over the housetops and dusty trees;
And there they were, glistening, brilliant, motionless,
Stitched in a golden sky
By yellow patient fingers long since turned to dust.
| Scheme | ABCCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011010110 10101100101101 0101010011 111011 1110010101 011010010100 100101 110101011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 347 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 278 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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