Analysis of Overheard on a Salmarsh
Harold Monro 1879 (Brussels) – 1932
Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?
Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at them?
Give them me.
No.
Give them me. Give them me.
No.
Then I will howl all night in the reeds,
Lie in the mud and howl for them.
Goblin, why do you love them so?
They are better than stars or water,
Better than voices of winds that sing,
Better than any man's fair daughter,
Your green glass beads on a silver ring.
Hush, I stole them out of the moon.
Give me your beads, I want them.
No.
I will howl in the deep lagoon
For your green glass beads, I love them so.
Give thme me. Give them.
No.
Scheme | abcDcDab d efef gbD gdbD |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111111 1110111111 111 1 111111 1 111111001 10010111 10111111 111011110 101101111 101101110 111110101 11111101 1111111 1 11100101 111111111 11111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 562 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 1, 4, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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