Analysis of Act V
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
First, two white arms that held him very close,
And ever closer as he drew him back
Reluctantly, the loose gold-colored hair
A thousand delicate fibers reaching out
Still to detain him; then some twenty steps
Of iron staircse winding round and down,
And ending in a narrow gallery hung
With Gobelin tapestries--Andromeda
Rescued by Perseus, and the sleek Diana
With her nymphs bathing; at the farther end
A door that gave upon a starlit grove
Of citron and clipt palm-trees; then a path
As bleached as moonlight, with the shadow of leaves
Stamped black upon it; next a vine-clad length
Of solid masonry; and last of all
A Gothic archway packed with night, and then--
A sudden gleaming dagger through his heart.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHHIJKLMNOP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 0101011111 0100011101 01010010101 1101111101 110110101 01000101001 111000100 101100001010 1011010101 0111010101 1100111101 111110111 1101110111 1101000111 010111101 0101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 729 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 568 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 123 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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