Analysis of Perplexed Music
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
EXPERIENCE, like a pale musician, holds
A dulcimer of patience in his hand,
Whence harmonies, we cannot understand,
Of God; will in his worlds, the strain unfolds
In sad-perplexed minors: deathly colds
Fall on us while we hear, and countermand
Our sanguine heart back from the fancyland
With nightingales in visionary wolds.
We murmur ' Where is any certain tune
Or measured music in such notes as these ? '
But angels, leaning from the golden seat,
Are not so minded their fine ear hath won
The issue of completed cadences,
And, smiling down the stars, they whisper--
SWEET.
Scheme | ABBAABBACDEFGHE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001010101 0100110011 110011001 1110110101 010110101 11111101 101011101 1101001 1101110101 1101001111 1101010101 1111011111 0101010100 010101110 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 455 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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