Analysis of In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
Back to the flower-town, side by side,
The bright months bring,
New-born, the bridegroom and the bride,
Freedom and spring.
The sweet land laughs from sea to sea,
Filled full of sun;
All things come back to her, being free;
All things but one.
In many a tender wheaten plot
Flowers that were dead
Live, and old suns revive; but not
That holier head.
By this white wandering waste of sea,
Far north, I hear
One face shall never turn to me
As once this year:
Shall never smile and turn and rest
On mine as there,
Nor one most sacred hand be prest
Upon my hair.
I came as one whose thoughts half linger,
Half run before;
The youngest to the oldest singer
That England bore.
I found him whom I shall not find
Till all grief end,
In holiest age our mightiest mind,
Father and friend.
But thou, if anything endure,
If hope there be,
O spirit that man's life left pure,
Man's death set free,
Not with disdain of days that were
Look earthward now;
Let dreams revive the reverend hair,
The imperial brow;
Come back in sleep, for in the life
Where thou art not
We find none like thee. Time and strife
And the world's lot
Move thee no more; but love at least
And reverent heart
May move thee, royal and released,
Soul, as thou art.
And thou, his Florence, to thy trust
Receive and keep,
Keep safe his dedicated dust,
His sacred sleep.
So shall thy lovers, come from far,
Mix with thy name
As morning-star with evening-star
His faultless fame.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101111 0111 1101001 1001 01111111 1111 111110101 1111 010010101 10101 10110111 11001 111100111 1111 11110111 1111 11010101 1111 11110111 0111 111111110 1101 010101010 1101 11111111 1111 01001101001 1001 1111001 1111 11011111 1111 11011110 111 110101001 001001 11011001 1111 11111101 0011 11111111 01001 11110001 1111 01110111 0101 11110001 1101 11110111 1111 11011101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,639 |
Words | 270 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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