Analysis of An Ending

Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945



I will go my ways from the city, and then, maybe,
My heart shall forget one woman's voice, and her lips;
I will arise, and set my face to the sea,
Among stranger-folk and in the wandering ships.

The world is great, and the bounds of it who shall set?
It may be I shall find, somewhere in the world I shall find,
A land that my feet may abide in; then I shall forget
The woman I loved, and the years that are left behind.

But, if the ends of the world are not wide enough
To out-weary my heart, and to find for my heart some fold,
I will go back to the city, and her I love,
And look on her face, and remember the days of old.


Scheme ABAB CDCD XEXE
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1111110100110 111011101001 11010111101 011010001001 011100111111 1111111001111 01111101011101 0101100111101 110110111101 11101101111111 111110100011 0110100100111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 624
Words 133
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 157
Words per stanza (avg) 44
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 11, 2023

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Arthur Symons

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