Analysis of The Fairies Break Their Dances
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
The fairies break their dances
And leave the printed lawn,
And up from India glances
The silver sail of dawn.
The candles burn their sockets,
The blinds let through the day,
The young man feels his pockets
And wonders what's to pay.
| Scheme | XAXA BCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0101110 010101 01110010 010111 0101110 011101 0111110 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 240 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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