Analysis of Fête Champêtre
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
Under the shadow of the trees
We sat together, you and I;
Our hearts were sweetly ill at ease
Under the shadow of the trees.
In the green circle of the grass
We saw the fairies passing by;
The wake, the fairy wake it was
Upon the circle of green grass.
And softly with their fairy chain
They wove a circle round about,
And round our hearts; ah, not in vain
They bound us with their fairy chain!
With shadowy bonds thy bound us fast,
They wove their circle in and out;
Ah, Céleste, when the fairies passed,
With what strong bonds they bound us fast!
Scheme | AbaA cbxc dedd feff |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1001101 11010101 101010111 1001101 00110101 11010101 01010111 01010111 01011101 11010101 011011101 11111101 110011111 11110001 11110101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 108 |
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) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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