Analysis of Fragment of a Ballad
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal 1829 (London) – 1862 (London)
Many a mile over land and sea
Unsummoned my love returned to me;
I remember not the words he said
But only the trees moaning overhead.
And he came ready to take and bear
The cross I had carried for many a year,
But words came slowly one by one
From frozen lips shut still and dumb.
How sounded my words so still and slow
To the great strong heart that loved me so,
Who came to save me from pain and wrong
And to comfort me with his love so strong?
I felt the wind strike chill and cold
And vapours rise from the red-brown mould;
I felt the spell that held my breath
Bending me down to a living death.
Scheme | AABB XXXX CCDD EEFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 100110101 1110111 101010111 1100110101 011101101 01111011001 11110111 11011101 110111101 101111111 111111101 0110111111 11011101 01110111 11011111 101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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