Analysis of The Spell Is Broke, The Charm Is Flown!
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
The spell is broke; the charm is flown!
Thus is it with life's fitful fever:
We madly smile when we should groan:
Delirium is our best deceiver.
Each lucid interval of thought
Recalls the woes of Nature's charter;
And he that acts as wise men ought,
But lives, as saints have died, a martyr.
Scheme | ABAB CBCB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01110111 111111010 11011111 010011011 11010011 10111010 01111111 111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 293 |
Words | 56 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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