Analysis of To --
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
The wantonest singing birds,
Are lips- and all thy melody
Of lip-begotten words-
Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrined,
Then desolately fall,
O God! on my funereal mind
Like starlight on a pall-
Thy heart- thy heart!- I wake and sigh,
And sleep to dream till day
Of the truth that gold can never buy-
Of the baubles that it may.
| Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 01010111 01101 11011100 110101 110101101 111 111111 11101 11111101 011111 101111101 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 442 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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