Analysis of Improvisations: Light And Snow: 11
Conrad Potter Aiken 1889 (Savannah, Georgia) – 1973 (Savannah, Georgia)
As I walked through the lamplit gardens,
On the thin white crust of snow,
So intensely was I thinking of my misfortune,
So clearly were my eyes fixed
On the face of this grief which has come to me,
That I did not notice the beautiful pale colouring
Of lamplight on the snow;
Nor the interlaced long blue shadows of trees;
And yet these things were there,
And the white lamps, and the orange lamps, and the lamps of lilac were there,
As I have seen them so often before;
As they will be so often again
Long after my grief is forgotten.
And still, though I know this, and say this, it cannot console me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110110 1011111 1010111011010 1100111 10111111111 111110010011 11101 100111111 011101 0011001010011101 1111111001 111111001 110111010 011111011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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