Analysis of The Arabian Shawl
Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)
"It is cold outside, you will need a coat--
What! this old Arabian shawl!
Bind it about your head and throat,
These steps... it is dark... my hand... you
might fall."
What has happened? What strange, sweet charm
Lingers about the Arabian shawl...
Do not tremble so! There can be no harm
In just remembering--that is all.
"I love you so--I will be your wife,"
Here, in the dark of the Terrace wall,
Say it again. Let that other life
Fold us like the Arabian shawl.
"Do you remember?"... "I quite forget,
Some childish foolishness, that is all,
To-night is the first time we have met...
Let me take off my Arabian shawl!"
Scheme | ABAXB CBCB DBDB EBEB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 11101001 11011101 11111111 11 11101111 1001001001 1110111111 010100111 111111111 100110101 110111101 111001001 110101101 110100111 111011111 1111101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 624 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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