Analysis of Ben Jonson: III
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
BROAD-BASED, broad-fronted, bounteous, multiform,
With many a valley impleached with ivy and vine,
Wherein the springs of all the streams run wine,
And many a crag full-faced against the storm,
The mountain where thy Muse’s feet made warm
Those lawns that revelled with her dance divine
Shines yet with fire as it was wont to shine
From tossing torches round the dance aswarm.
Nor less, high-stationed on the grey grave heights,
High-thoughted seers with heaven’s heart-kindling lights
Hold converse: and the herd of meaner things
Knows or by fiery scourge or fiery shaft
When wrath on thy broad brows has risen, and laughed,
Darkening thy soul with shadow of thunderous wings.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CCDEED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011 110010111001 0101110111 01001110101 0101110111 111110101 11110111111 110101011 1111010111 1111101101 1100011101 111100111001 11111111001 100111111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 676 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 273 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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