Analysis of To Rosamund
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
AND it is fair and very fair
This maze of blossom and sweet air,
This drift of orchard snows,
This royal promise of the rose
Wherein your young eyes see
Such buds of scented joys to be.
A gay green garden, softly fanned
By the blythe breeze that blows
To speed your ship of dreams to the enchanted land.
But I--beyond the budding screen
Of green and red and white and green,
Behind the radiant show
Of things that cling and grow and glow
I see the plains where lie
The hopes of days gone by:
Gray breadths of melancholy, crossed
By winds that coldly blow
From that cold sea wherein my argosy is lost.
Scheme | AABBCCDBD EEFFGGHFH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101 11110011 111101 11010101 011111 11110111 01110101 101111 111111100101 11010101 11010101 0101001 11110101 110111 011111 1111001 111101 111101110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 238 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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