Analysis of Ballade Of Amoureuse

Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)



Not Jason nor Medea wise,
I crave to see, nor win much lore,
Nor list to Orpheus' minstrelsies;
Nor Her'cles would I see, that o'er
The wide world roamed from shore to shore;
Nor, by St. James, Penelope, -
Nor pure Lucrece, such wrong that bore:
To see my Love suffices me!

Virgil and Cato, no man vies
With them in wealth of clerkly store;
I would not see them with mine eyes;
Nor him that sailed, sans sail nor oar,
Across the barren sea and hoar,
And all for love of his ladye;
Nor pearl nor sapphire takes me more:
To see my Love suffices me!

I heed not Pegasus, that flies
As swift as shafts the bowmen pour;
Nor famed Pygmalion's artifice,
Whereof the like was ne'er before;
Nor Oleus, that drank of yore
The salt wave of the whole great sea:
Why? dost thou ask? 'Tis as I swore -
To see my Love suffices me!


Scheme abaxbcbC ababbxbC abxbbcbC
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 11111111 1111001 11111110 01111111 11110100 1111111 11110101 10010111 1101111 11111111 11111111 01010101 0111111 111100111 11110101 11110011 11110101 111100 1011101 111111 01110111 11111111 11110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 799
Words 161
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 206
Words per stanza (avg) 53
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Andrew Lang

Andrew Richard Lang FRS CBE was a British scientist and crystallographer. more…

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