Analysis of Madman's Song
Elinor Morton Wylie 1885 (Somerville, New Jersey) – 1928 (New York City, New York)
Better to see your cheek grown hollow,
Better to see your temple worn,
Than to forget to follow, follow,
After the sound of a silver horn.
Better to bind your brow with willow
And follow, follow until you die,
Than to sleep with your head on a golden pillow,
Nor lift it up when the hunt goes by.
Better to see your cheek grow sallow
And your hair grown gray, so soon, so soon,
Than to forget to hallo, hallo,
After the milk-white hounds of the moon.
Scheme | ABAB ACAC ADAD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101111110 10111101 110111010 100110101 10111111 010100111 111111101010 111110111 10111111 011111111 1101111 100111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 456 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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