Analysis of Tryst
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)
Somewhere thou awaitest,
And I, with lips unkissed,
Weep that thus to latest
Thou puttest off our tryst!
The golden bowls are broken,
The silver cords untwine;
Almond flowers in token
Have bloomed,---that I am thine!
Others who would fly thee
In cowardly alarms,
Who hate thee and deny thee,
Thou foldest in thine arms!
How shall I entreat thee
No longer to withhold?
I dare not go to meet thee,
O lover, far and cold!
O lover, whose lips chilling
So many lips have kissed,
Come, even if unwilling,
And keep thy solemn tryst!
| Scheme | AAAA BBBX CDCD CACA EAEA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 111 01111 111110 111101 0101110 01011 1010010 111111 101111 010001 1110011 11011 11111 110101 1111111 110101 1101110 110111 1101010 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 529 |
| Words | 98 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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