Analysis of The Poet's Songs.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
The copse-wood merely sows
Itself, not planted;
And so it is with those
Strange and enchanted
Moods that have taken root,
Bloomed, and e'en borne fruit,
Or e'er the poet knew't,
Beauty-haunted.
The little songs that fly,
When the lips parted
Let dreams of ear and eye
Forth, so warm-hearted:
Be it a joy or pain,
Each to chaunt is fain
What in the parent brain
Soothed or smarted.
This is the poet's dower,
None, none completer;
As if 'twere Love's own flower,
Than all flowers sweeter,
Which, as the seer saith,
Still breathes a faery breath
Where Beauty smiles, though Death
May come to meet her.
Scheme | ABACDDEBFBFBGGGBHHIIJJJI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101 01110 011111 10010 111101 101111 11001011 1010 010111 10110 111101 11110 110111 11111 100101 1110 110101 111 1111110 111010 11011 11011 110111 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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