Analysis of She Tells Her Love

Robert Graves

1895 · Wimbledon   –   1985 · Deià


She tells her love while half asleep,
In the dark hours,
With half-words whispered low:
As Earth stirs in her winter sleep
And put out grass and flowers
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.


Scheme ABCABCC
Poetic Form ~Rhyme Royal 
Metre 11011101 00110 111101 11100101 0111010 0101 010101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 198
Words 37
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 156
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 01, 2023

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Robert Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome, novelist and soldier in World War One. more…

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