Analysis of Beppo
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
Why are thou sad, my Beppo? But last eve,
Here at my feet, thy dear head on my breast,
I heard thee say thy heart would no more grieve
Or feel the olden ennui and unrest.
What troubles thee? Am I not all thine own –
I, so long sought, so sighed for and so dear?
And do I not live but for thee alone?
“Thou hast seen Lippo, whom I loved last year! ”
Well, what of that? Last year is naught to me –
‘Tis swallowed in the ocean of the past.
Art thou not glad ‘twas Lippo, and not thee,
Whose brief bright day in that great gulf was cast?
Thy day is all before thee. Let no cloud,
Here in the very morn of our delight,
Drift up from distant foreign skies, to shroud
Our sun of love whose radiance is so bright.
“Thou art not first? ” Nay, and he who would be
Defeats his own heart’s dearest purpose then.
No truer truth was ever told to thee –
Who has loved most, he best can love again.
If Lippo (and not he alone) has taught
The arts that please thee, wherefore art thou sad?
Since all my vast love-lore to thee is brought,
Look up and smile, my Beppo, and be glad.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH EIEI JKJK |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111111 1111111111 1111111111 11010010001 1101111111 1111111011 0111111101 1111011111 1111111111 1100010101 1111110011 1111011111 1111011111 10010111001 1111010111 101111100111 1111101111 0111110101 1101110111 1111111101 1100110111 011111111 1111111111 110111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,096 |
Words | 220 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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