Analysis of Three In A Shade.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Here we sit, and blind Desire
Plays his spinet in the shade.
How is it our fancies tire?
Why is it our hearts afraid,
Cower, as with trembling wing
'Neath the grey hawk Time that flies
Where the phantom colours cling
To the ever-fading skies?
Is it with all things but thus?
In our hearts when we were born
Young Desire laughed with us,
So, so old now and forlorn
As he sits, an eerie elf
In the wizard airs that stir,
With a man so like himself
And the ghost of what you were.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010 111001 111101010 11110101 10111001 1011111 101011 1010101 1111111 01011101 1010111 1111001 1111101 0010111 1011101 0011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 470 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 369 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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