Analysis of Yvonne of Brittany
Ernest Christopher Dowson 1867 – 1900
In your mother's apple-orchard,
Just a year ago, last spring:
Do you remember, Yvonne!
The dear trees lavishing
Rain of their starry blossoms
To make you a coronet?
Do you ever remember, Yvonne,
As I remember yet?
In your mother's apple-orchard,
When the world was left behind:
You were shy, so shy, Yvonne!
But your eyes were calm and kind.
We spoke of the apple harvest,
When the cider press is set,
And such-like trifles, Yvonne,
That doubtless you forget.
In the still, soft Breton twilight,
We were silent; words were few,
Till your mother came out chiding,
For the grass was bright with dew:
But I know your heart was beating,
Like a fluttered, frightened dove.
Do you ever remember, Yvonne,
That first faint flush of love?
In the fulness of midsummer,
When the apple-bloom was shed,
Oh, brave was your surrender,
Though shy the words you said.
I was glad, so glad, Yvonne!
To have led you home at last;
Do you ever remember, Yvonne,
How swiftly the days passed?
In your mother's apple-orchard
It is grown too dark to stray,
There is none to chide you, Yvonne!
You are over far away.
There is dew on your grave grass, Yvonne!
But your feet it shall not wet:
No, you never remember, Yvonne!
And I shall soon forget.
Scheme | AbcbxdCd Aecexdcd xfbfbgCg hihicjCj Akckcdcd |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 01101010 1010111 1101001 011100 1111010 1110101 111001001 110101 01101010 1011101 1011101 1110101 11101010 1010111 0111001 110101 0011101 1010101 11101110 1011111 11111110 1010101 111001001 111111 0011110 1010111 1111010 110111 1111101 1111111 111001001 110011 01101010 1111111 11111101 1110101 111111101 1111111 111001001 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,189 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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