Analysis of Bohemian Folk-Song
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
(From the French)
The moon was in the sky,
Pale, pale her light had grown
I went into the forest
All alone.
All alone,
My heart was well-nigh glad,
But when I thought of thee
Grief came and made me sad.
It came with the winds of autumn
When the dead leaves drop from the tree,
Because thy heart hath forgotten
Thy lover afar from thee.
It came with the rain fast falling
Through the dead leaves again,
Because that over a dead love
The heart must weep like rain.
Scheme | xxaxA Abcb xcxc xxxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 011001 110111 1101010 101 101 111111 111111 110111 11101110 10111101 01111010 1100111 11101110 101101 01110011 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 457 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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