Analysis of The Way Of A Maid
Francis Thompson 1859 (City of Preston, Lancashire) – 1907 (London)
The lover whose soul shaken is
In some decuman billow of bliss,
Who feels his gradual-wading feet
Sink in some sudden hollow of sweet,
And 'mid love's us-ed converse comes
Sharp on a mood which all joy sums--
An instant's fine compendium of
The liberal-leav-ed writ of love;
His abashed pulses beating thick
At the exigent joy and quick,
Is dumbed, by aiming utterance great
Up to the miracle of his fate.
The wise girl, such Icarian fall
Saved by her confidence that she's small,--
As what no kindred word will fit
Is uttered best by opposite,
Love in the tongue of hate exprest,
And deepest anguish in a jest,--
Feeling the infinite must be
Best said by triviality,
Speaks, where expression bates its wings,
Just happy, alien, little things;
What of all words is in excess
Implies in a sweet nothingness,
With dailiest babble shows her sense
That full speech were full impotence;
And while she feels the heavens lie bare,
She only talks about her hair.
Scheme | ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIJCKLLMMNOPQRR |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101 0111011 111100101 101101011 01111101 11011111 11101001 010011111 10110101 10100101 111101001 110100111 011111 110100111 11110111 11011100 1001111 01010001 10010011 1110100 11010111 110100101 1111101 01001100 1110101 11101100 011101011 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 935 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 752 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 168 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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