Analysis of Alone
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
The abode of the nightingale is bare,
Flowered frost congeals in the gelid air,
The fox howls from his frozen lair:
Alas, my loved one is gone,
I am alone:
It is winter.
Once the pink cast a winy smell,
The wild bee hung in the hyacinth bell,
Light in effulgence of beauty fell:
I am alone:
It is winter.
My candle a silent fire doth shed,
Starry Orion hunts o'erhead;
Come moth, come shadow, the world is dead:
Alas, my loved one is gone,
I am alone;
It is winter.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0011010011 10110011 01111101 0111111 1101 1110 1011011 011100101 1011101 1101 1110 1100101011 1001011 11110111 0111111 1101 1110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 457 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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