Analysis of When The Gloom Is On The Glen
William Makepeace Thackeray 1811 – 1863
When the moonlight's on the mountain
And the gloom is on the glen,
At the cross beside the fountain
There is one will meet thee then.
At the cross beside the fountain;
Yes, the cross beside the fountain,
There is one will meet thee then!
I have braved, since first we met, love,
Many a danger in my course;
But I never can forget, love,
That dear fountain, that old cross,
Where, her mantle shrouded o'er her—
For the winds were chilly then—
First I met my Leonora,
When the gloom was on the glen.
Many a clime I've ranged since then, love,
Many a land I've wandered o'er;
But a valley like that glen, love,
Half so dear I never sor!
Ne'er saw maiden fairer, coyer,
Than wert thou, my true love, when
In the gloaming first I saw yer,
In the gloaming of the glen!
Scheme | abABAaB cxcxdbxb cdcxdbdb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010 0011101 10101010 1111111 10101010 10101010 1111111 11111111 10010011 11101011 1110111 101010100 1010101 1111010 1011101 100111111 100111010 10101111 1111101 11101010 1111111 00101111 0010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 752 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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