Analysis of Herod's Lament For Mariamne
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Oh, Mariamne! now for thee
The heart of which thou bled'st is bleeding;
Revenge is lost in agony,
And wild remorse to rage succeeding.
Oh, Mariamne! where art thou?
Thou canst not hear my bitter pleading:
Ah! could'st thou--thou would'st pardon now,
Though Heaven were to my prayer unheeding.
And is she dead?--and did they dare
Obey my frenzy's jealous raving?
My wrath but doom'd my own despair:
The sword that smote her's o'er me waving.--
But thou art cold, my murder'd love!
And this dark heart is vainly craving
For her who soars alone above,
And leaves my soul unworthy saving.
She's gone, who shared my diadem;
She sunk, with her my joys entombing;
I swept that flower from Judah's stem,
Whose leaves for me alone were blooming;
And mine's the guilt, and mine the hell,
This bosom's desolation dooming;
And I have earn'd those tortures well,
Which unconsumed are still consuming!
Scheme | ABABCBCB DBDBEBEB FBFBGBGB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 0111111110 01110100 010111010 11111 111111010 1111111101 11001111 01110111 01111010 11111101 0111110110 11111101 011111010 10110101 011101010 1111110 1110111 11110111 111101010 01010101 1101010 01111101 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 895 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 228 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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