Analysis of Gone
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal 1829 (London) – 1862 (London)
To touch the glove upon her tender hand,
To watch the jewel sparkle in her ring,
Lifted my heart into a sudden song
As when the wild birds sing.
To touch her shadow on the sunny grass,
To break her pathway through the darkened wood,
Filled all my life with trembling and tears
And silence where I stood.
I watch the shadows gather round my heart,
I live to know that she is gone –
Gone gone for ever, like the tender dove
That left the Ark alone.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1101010101 1101010001 1011010101 110111 110110101 110110101 1111110001 010111 110110111 11111111 1111010101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 446 |
Words | 90 |
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 March 05, 2023
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