Analysis of To Youth
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
WHERE art thou gone, light-ankled Youth?
With wing at either shoulder,
And smile that never left thy mouth
Until the Hours grew colder:
Then somewhat seem’d to whisper near
That thou and I must part;
I doubted it; I felt no fear,
No weight upon the heart.
If aught befell it, Love was by
And roll’d it off again;
So, if there ever was a sigh,
’T was not a sigh of pain.
I may not call thee back; but thou
Returnest when the hand
Of gentle Sleep waves o’er my brow
His poppy-crested wand;
Then smiling eyes bend over mine,
Then lips once press’d invite;
But sleep hath given a silent sign,
And both, alas! take flight.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DXDX EXEX FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1111111 1111010 01110111 01010110 11111101 110111 11011111 110101 11011111 011101 11110101 1110111 11111111 1101 11011111 110101 11011101 111101 111100101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 619 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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