Analysis of Fragment of Ballad
Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874
How shall I sing? the thing I crave
To say is speechless as a Lover's trance.
How shall I give to thee
What even now is all so wholly thine
That but by losing thee in me
Or me in thee it never can be mine?
As a sliding wave of sliding sea
Before my following hand doth dance
Ever and ever onward to the shore,
And breaks and is a thousand things at once,
And from the moment's multiplicity
Takes itself up again into a wave:
So all I feel and see
Breaks to the thousand-fold of Fate and Chance,
But from the moment's multiplicity
Takes itself up into the thought of thee.
| Scheme | ABCDCD CBXXCA CBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110111 1111010101 111111 1101111101 11110101 1101110111 101011101 011100111 1001010101 0101010111 010100100 1011010101 111101 1101011101 110100100 1011010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 564 |
| Words | 116 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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