Analysis of Quieta Ne Movete II
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
IF one should wake one's frozen faith
In sunlight of her radiant eyes,
Bid it forget its dream of death,
In this new dream of Paradise,
Bid it forget the long, slow pain,
The agony when, all in vain,
It fought for life, and how one swore,
Once cold, it should not waken more;
If hope one buried long ago
Should thrill beneath those smiles of hers,
Should in one's sere life stir and grow,
As in brown woods the young spring stirs;
If, breaking icy bonds of grief,
One's soul should start to bud and leaf,
It might forget in that springtide
How last year's leaves fell off and died.
If from warm faith and hope set high
A lovely living child was born,
With lips more pure than starlit sky,
And eyes as clear as summer morn,
Child-love might grow till one forgot
Old love, that was and now is not--
Forgot that far-off time of tears,
And all these desolated years.
And yet of faith, hope, love, one knows
So well what end the years will make,
If one should dig beneath Time's snows
And wake them now for her sweet sake.
New life may mean new joy; but then,
What lives again may die again,
And to that second death there may
Be no new resurrection-day.
Scheme | XXXXAABB CDCDEEFF GHGHFFXX IJIJKKXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 01101001 11011111 0111110 11010111 01001101 11110111 11111101 11110101 11011110 10111101 10110111 11010111 11111101 1101011 11111101 11110111 01010111 11111101 01111101 11111101 11110111 01111111 01111 01111111 11110111 11110111 01111011 11111111 11011101 01110111 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,157 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 222 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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