Analysis of You Should at Times Go Out

Elizabeth Daryush 1887 – 1977



You should at times go out
from where the faithful kneel,
visit the slums of doubt
and feel what the lost feel;

you should at times walk on,
away from your friends' ways,
go where the scorned have gone,
pass beyond blame and praise;

and at times you should quit
(ah yes) your sunny home,
sadly awhile should sit,
even, in wrong's dark room,

or ever, suddenly,
by simple bliss betrayed,
you shall be forced to flee,
unloved, alone, afraid.


Scheme ABAB XCXC DXDX EFEF
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 111111 110101 100111 011011 111111 011111 110111 101101 011111 111101 100111 100111 110100 110101 111111 010101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 434
Words 82
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Elizabeth Daryush

Elizabeth Daryush was an English poet. more…

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