Analysis of Bion
Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)
The wail of Moschus on the mountains crying
The Muses heard, and loved it long ago;
They heard the hollows of the hills replying,
They heard the weeping water's overflow;
They winged the sacred strain--the song undying,
The song that all about the world must go, -
When poets for a poet dead are sighing,
The minstrels for a minstrel friend laid low.
And dirge to dirge that answers, and the weeping
For Adonais by the summer sea,
The plaints for Lycidas, and Thyrsis (sleeping
Far from 'the forest ground called Thessaly'),
These hold thy memory, Bion, in their keeping,
And are but echoes of the moan for thee.
Scheme | ABABABAB ACAXAC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111101010 0101011101 11010101010 110101010 11010101010 0111010111 11010101110 0101010111 01111100010 1110101 01110110 11010111 11110010110 0111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 240 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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