Analysis of Quiet
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)
COME not the earliest petal here, but only
Wind, cloud, and star,
Lovely and far,
Make it less lonely.
Few are the feet that seek her here, but sleeping
Thoughts sweet as flowers
Linger for hours,
Things winged, yet weeping.
Here in the immortal empire of the grasses,
Time, like one wrong
Note in a song,
With their bloom, passes.
| Scheme | ABBA CDDC EFFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 110100101110 1101 1001 11110 11011101110 11110 10110 11110 1000101001010 1111 1001 11110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 328 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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