Analysis of To Catullus
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
My brother, my Valerius, dearest head
Of all whose crowning bay-leaves crown their mother
Rome, in the notes first heard of thine I read
My brother.
No dust that death or time can strew may smother
Love and the sense of kinship inly bred
From loves and hates at one with one another.
To thee was Caesar's self nor dear nor dread,
Song and the sea were sweeter each than other:
How should I living fear to call thee dead
My brother?
| Scheme | abaB bab abaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Roundel |
| Metre | 11011101 11110111110 1001111111 110 11111111110 10011111 11011111010 1111011111 10010101110 1111011111 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 433 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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