Analysis of How Sweet I Roam'd
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
How sweet I roam'd from field to field,
And tasted all the summer's pride
'Til the prince of love beheld
Who in the sunny beams did glide!
He shew'd me lilies for my hair
And blushing roses for my brow;
He led me through his garden fair,
Where all his golden pleasures grow.
With sweet May dews my wings were wet,
And Phoebus fir'd my vocal rage
He caught me in his silken net,
And shut me in his golden cage.
He loves to sit and hear me sing,
Then, laughing, sports and plays with me;
Then stretches out my golden wing,
And mocks my loss of liberty.
| Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE FGFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 11111111 01010101 101111 10010111 11110111 01010111 11111101 11110101 11111101 010101101 11101101 01101101 11110111 11010111 11011101 01111100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 543 |
| Words | 110 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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