Analysis of Discord
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
Unreconciled by life's fleet years, that fled
With changeful clang of pinions wide and wild,
Though two great spirits had lived, and hence had sped
Unreconciled;
Though time and change, harsh time's imperious child,
That wed strange hands together, might not wed
High hearts by hope's misprision once beguiled;
Faith, by the light from either's memory shed,
Sees, radiant as their ends were undefiled,
One goal for each--not twain among the dead
Unreconciled.
| Scheme | abaB bab aaaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111111 11111101 11110110111 010 11011101001 1111010111 1111010101 1101111001 110011101 1111110101 010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 461 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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