Analysis of Apparitions - Prologue To "The Two Poets Of Croisic."

Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)



Such a starved bank of moss
Till, that May-morn,
Blue ran the flash across:
Violets were born!

Sky, what a scowl of cloud
Till, near and far,
Ray on ray split the shroud:
Splendid, a star!

World, how it walled about
Life with disgrace,
Till God's own smile came out:
That was thy face!


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 101111 1111 110101 10001 110111 1101 111101 1001 111101 1101 111111 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 280
Words 56
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 72
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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