Analysis of The Broken Ring
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
To the willows of the brookside
The mill wheel sings to-day--
Sings and weeps,
As the brooklet creeps
Wondering on its way;
And here is the ring _she_ gave me
With love's sweet promise then--
It hath burst apart
Like the trusting heart
That may never be soothed again!
Oh, I would be a minstrel
To wander far and wide,
Weaving in song the merciless wrong
Done by a perjured bride!
Or I would be a soldier,
To seek in the bloody fray
What gifts of fate can compensate
For the pangs I suffer to-day!
Yet may this aching bosom,
By bitter sorrow crushed,
Be still and cold
In the churchyard mould
Ere _thy_ sweet voice be hushed;
So sing, sing on forever,
O wheel of the brookside mill,
For you mind me again
Of the old time when
I felt love's gracious thrill.
Scheme | ABCCBXDEED XAXAFBXB XGHHGFIDDI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101 011111 101 1011 100111 01101111 111101 11101 10101 11101101 1111010 110101 100101001 110101 1111010 1100101 1111110 10111011 1111010 110101 1101 0011 111111 1111010 111011 111101 10111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 8, 10 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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