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 |
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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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