Analysis of Margaret's Song

Lascelles Abercrombie 1881 (Ashton upon Mersey) – 1938 (London)



Too soothe and mild your lowland airs
for one whose hope is gone:
I'm think of the little tarn,
Brown, very lone.

Would now the tall swift mists could lay
their wet grasp on my hair,
and the great natures of the hills
round me friendly were.

In vain! - for taking hills your plains
have spoilt my soul I think,
But would my feet were going down
Towards the brown tarn's brink.


Scheme XAAX XXXX XBXB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (33%)
Metre 1101111 111111 1110101 1101 11011111 111111 00110101 11100 01110111 111111 11110101 010111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 373
Words 75
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Lascelles Abercrombie

Lascelles Abercrombie was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". more…

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