Analysis of Comfort of Dante
Richard Le Gallienne 1866 (Liverpool) – 1947
Down where the unconquered river still flows on,
One strong free thing within a prison's heart,
I drew me with my sacred grief apart,
That it might look that spacious joy upon:
And as I mused, lo! Dante walked with me,
And his face spake of the high peace of pain
Till all my grief glowed in me throbbingly
As in some lily's heart might glow the rain.
So like a star I listened, till mine eye
Caught that lone land across the water-way
Wherein my lady breathed,-now breathing is-
'O Dante,' then I said, 'she more than I
Should know thy comfort, go to
her
, I pray.'
'Nay!' answered he, 'for she hath Beatrice.'
Scheme | ABBAXCXC DEXDXXEX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110111 1111010101 1111110101 1111110101 0111110111 0111101111 11111011 101111101 1101110111 1111010101 0111011101 1101111111 1111011 0 11 1101111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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