Analysis of A Song Of Riches
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
What will you give to a barefoot lass,
Morning with breath like wine?
Wade, bare feet! In my wide morass
Starry marigolds shine.
Alms, sweet Noon, for a barefoot lass,
With her laughing looks aglow!
Run, bare feet! In my fragrant grass
Golden buttercups blow.
Gift, a gift for a barefoot lass,
O twilight hour of dreams!
Rest, bare feet, by my lake of glass,
Where the mirrored sunset gleams.
Homeward the weary merchants pass,
With the gold bedimmed by care.
Little they wise that the barefoot lass
Is the only millionaire.
Scheme | ABABACAC ADAD AEAE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011 101111 11101101 10101 1111011 1010101 11101101 10101 1011011 111011 11111111 101011 10010101 101111 10111011 101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 517 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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