Analysis of The Solitary Lyre
George Darley 1795 (Dublin) – 1846 (London)
Wherefore, unlaurell'd Boy,
Whom the contemptuous Muse will not inspire,
With a sad kind of joy
Still sing'st thou to thy solitary lyre?
The melancholy winds
Pour through unnumber'd reeds their idle woes,
And every Naiad finds
A stream to weep her sorrow as it flows.
Her sighs unto the air
The Wood-maid's native oak doth broadly tell,
And Echo's fond despair
Intelligible rocks re-syllable.
Wherefore then should not I,
Albeit no haughty Muse my heart inspire,
Fated of grief to die,
Impart it to my solitary lyre?
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DXDX EBEB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 111 10010011101 101111 1111111001 01001 11111101 010011 0111010111 011001 0111011101 010101 0100011100 11111 01011011101 101111 011111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 509 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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