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 | |
Metre | 11101011 1010101 1110101 1101001 11111001 01110111 1010011111 1111010011 0110011101 11111101 11001011 111110101 1111101 111111011 11111101 11011011101 11011101 11010111 |
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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