Analysis of AT THE FOOT OF A CASTLE
AT THE FOOT OF A CASTLE
At the foot of a castle in the gilded, setting sun,
In the warm and fragrant air of a summer’s belvedere,
Through a deep, dense forest a river does run
Winnowing through the trees, azure hued and clear.
And in the languorous evenings, when the stars appear like wines,
As harbingers of autumn, in the dusky, turquoise sky
A maiden of regalia, from epochs long gone by
Walks out upon the terrace, gazing on the pines.
Her flowing, dark mane is lovely, long and fair
And her royal gaze is of the sacred night
When songbirds sing in the sad moonlight
Above the many fountains rising in the square.
John Lars Zwerenz
Scheme | X ABAB CDDC EFFE C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010 10110100010101 0010101101001 10111001011 1010110101 0001101010111 1100110001101 0101010110111 110101010101 01011110101 00101110101 1110011 010101010001 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 642 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
Rhyming, Metrical Verse
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Written on December 01, 2021
Submitted by angelabradford2 on December 03, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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