Analysis of Beware
Dora Sigerson Shorter 1866 (Dublin) – 1918
I closed my hands upon a moth
And when I drew my palms apart,
Instead of dusty, broken wings
I found a bleeding human heart.
I crushed my foot upon a worm
That had my garden for its goal,
But when I drew my foot aside
I found a dying human soul.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110101 01111101 01110101 11010101 11110101 11110111 11111101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 241 |
Words | 53 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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