Analysis of Prelude - Lohengrin
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
Love, out of the depth of things,
As a dewfall felt from above,
From the heaven whence only springs
Love,
Love, heard from the heights thereof,
The clouds and the watersprings,
Draws close as the clouds remove.
And the soul in it speaks and sings,
A swan sweet-souled as a dove,
An echo that only rings
Love.
| Scheme | abaB bax abaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111 1011101 10101101 1 111011 01001 1110101 00101101 0111101 1101101 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 310 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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