Analysis of Unstrung
Ada Cambridge 1844 (St Germans, Norfolk) – 1926 (Melbourne)
My skies were blue, and my sun was bright,
And, with fingers tender and strong and light,
He woke up the music that slept before—
Echoing, echoing evermore!
By-and-by, my skies grew grey;—
No master-touch on the harp-strings lay,—
Dead silence cradled the notes divine:
His soul had wander'd away from mine.
Idly, o'er strange harps swept his hand,
Seeking for music more wild and grand.
He wearied at last of his fruitless quest,
And he came again to my harp for rest.
But the dust lay thick on the golden wires,
And they would not thrill to the old desires.
The chords, so broken and jarred with pain,
Could never be tender and sweet again.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 110101111 0110100101 1110101101 10010010 1011111 110110111 11010101 111100111 101011111 101101101 1101111101 0110111111 10111101010 01111101010 011100111 1101100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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