Analysis of From Yon Darkened Keep
There afar in yon darkened keep,
Beyond my casement high,
Stands the stone of an angel lost
That yet earthly lingers nigh.
The wind blows, the mist flows,
From the graven chill,
And thus upon she wanders forth,
For she loves me still.
O’ to sorrow, to journey forth,
Hath become her spirit’s end,
To breach amid the nightly mist
And carry upon the wind!
The moon glows, and time slows,
As she wanders from the nil;
Thus many years she’s borne upon,
For she loves me still
My one true love grieves in death,
Thus she doth not sleep,
As yet she treks her earthly course
From yon darkened keep.
As the wind blows, the mist flows,
Forever and ever ‘til,
And thereupon she’ll wander forth,
For she loves me still.
Scheme | abxbcdeD exxxcdxD xaxacdeD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101101 01111 10111101 1110101 011011 10101 01011101 11111 11101101 1010101 11010101 0100101 011011 1110101 11011101 11111 1111101 11111 11110101 11101 1011011 0100101 0011101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 717 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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