Analysis of Beethoven In Central Park
Alfred Noyes 1880 (Wolverhampton) – 1958 (Isle of Wight)
(After a glimpse of a certain monument in New York, during the
Victory Celebration)
The thousand-windowed towers were all alight.
Throngs of all nations filled that glittering way;
And, rich with dreams of the approaching day,
Flags of all nations trampled down the night.
No clouds, at sunset, die in airs as bright.
No clouds, at dawn, awake in winds as gay;
For Freedom rose in that august array,
Crowned with the stars and weaponed for the right.
Then, in a place of whispering leaves and gloom,
I saw, too dark, too dumb for bronze or stone,
One tragic head that bowed against the sky;
O, in a hush too deep for any tomb
I saw Beethoven, dreadfully alone
With his own grief, and his own majesty.
Scheme | XX ABBAABBA CDXCDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011010100011100 100010 01010100101 11110111001 0111100101 1111010101 111110111 1111010111 1101011001 110101101 10011100101 1111111111 1101110101 1001111101 1110010001 1111011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 693 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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