Analysis of Attadale, West Highlands
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
A black and glassy float, opaque and still,
The loch, at furthest ebb supine in sleep,
Reversing, mirrored in its luminous deep
The calm grey skies; the solemn spurs of hill;
Heather, and corn, and wisps of loitering haze;
The wee white cots, black-hatted, plumed with smoke;
The braes beyond--and when the ripple awoke,
They wavered with the jarred and wavering glaze.
The air was hushed and dreamy. Evermore
A noise of running water whispered near.
A straggling crow called high and thin. A bird
Trilled from the birch-leaves. Round the shingled shore,
Yellow with weed, there wandered, vague and clear,
Strange vowels, mysterious gutturals, idly heard.
Scheme | ABBACDDCEFGEFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010101 0111010101 01010011001 0111010111 10010111001 011111111 01010101001 11010101001 011101010 0111010101 011110101 110111011 1011110101 11001001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 650 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 519 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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