Analysis of Beauty Beheld

julie leyraud 1960 (USA)



Step light,listen, hear the crackle of leaves
Look around and through the trees.
Step light,listen, to the peaceful wind
What's that? a crackle again!
What must it be lerking in the tree
Behold, Thou stepped in front of me.
Bold and beautiful, though you did not see
there I stood gasping quietly at thee.
A rack mighty enough to shake the oak
fur so pure you wore as a cloak.
My eyes were in an amazed daze
As I watch you look and gently graze.
Your points of sixteen,maybe even more
that rack would look fine over my door.
But still I stayed, you walked around
while slowly I lowered my gun to the ground
True beauty my eyes did behold
Shall I again before I'm old?


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 650
Words 130
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 522
Words per stanza (avg) 127
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Submitted by Juliea777 on July 02, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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