Analysis of Through The Wood
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
THROUGH the wood, the green wood, the wet wood, the light wood,
Love and I went maying a thousand lives ago;
Shafts of golden sunlight had made a golden bright wood
In my heart reflected, because I loved you so.
Through the wood, the chill wood, the brown wood, the bare wood,
I alone went lonely no later than last year,
What had thinned the branches, and wrecked my dear and fair wood,
Killed the pale wild roses and left the rose-thorns sere?
Through the wood, the dead wood, the sad wood, the lone wood,
Winds of winter shiver through lichens old and grey,
You ride past forgetting the wood that was our own wood
All our own--and withered as ever a flower of May.
Scheme | ABAB ACAC ADAD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101011011011 10111010101 111011101011 011010011111 101011011011 101110110111 1110100111011 101110010111 101011011011 111010110101 11101001111011 110101011001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 675 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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