Analysis of The Tavern of Last Times
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
At Box Hill, Surrey
A modern hour from London (as we spin
Into a silver thread the miles of space
Between us and our goal), there is a place
Apart from city traffic, dust, and din,
Green with great trees, where hides a quiet Inn.
Here Nelson last looked on the lovely face
Which made his world; and by its magic grace
Trailed rosy clouds across each early sin.
And, leaning lawnward, is the room where Keats
Wrote the last one of those immortal songs
(Called by the critics of his day 'mere rhymes').
A lark, high in the boxwood bough repeats
Those lyric strains, to idle passing throngs,
There by the little Tavern-of-Last-Times.
Scheme | X ABBAABBACDECDE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11110 01010110111 0101010111 01101011101 0111010101 1111110101 1101110101 1111011101 1101011101 010110111 1011110101 1101011111 011001101 1101110101 1101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 246 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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