Analysis of Beginning Of End
Francis Thompson 1859 (City of Preston, Lancashire) – 1907 (London)
She was aweary of the hovering
Of Love's incessant tumultuous wing;
Her lover's tokens she would answer not--
'Twere well she should be strange with him somewhat:
A pretty babe, this Love,--but fie on it,
That would not suffer her lay it down a whit!
Appointed tryst defiantly she balked,
And with her lightest comrade lightly walked,
Who scared the chidden Love to hide apart,
And peep from some unnoticed corner of her heart.
She thought not of her lover, deem it not
(There yonder, in the hollow, that's HIS cot),
But she forgot not that he was forgot.
She saw him at his gate, yet stilled her tongue--
So weak she felt her, that she would feel strong,
And she must punish him for doing him wrong:
Passed, unoblivious of oblivion still;
And if she turned upon the brow o' the hill,
It was so openly, so lightly done,
You saw she thought he was not thought upon.
He through the gate went back in bitterness;
She that night woke and stirred, with no distress,
Glad of her doing,--sedulous to be glad,
Lest perhaps her foolish heart suspect that it was sad.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110100 110101001 0101011101 1111111111 0101111111 11110011101 0101010011 010101101 110111101 011101010101 1111010111 1100010111 1101111101 1111111101 1111011111 01110111011 11101001 01110101101 1111001101 1111111101 1101110100 1111011101 110101111 1010101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,042 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 819 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 193 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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