Analysis of Lines Written In An Album, At Malta
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
As o'er the cold sepulchral stone
Some name arrests the passer-by;
Thus, when thou view'st this page alone,
May mine attract thy pensive eye!
And when by thee that name is read,
Perchance in some succeeding year,
Reflect on me as on the dead,
And think my heart is buried here.
September 14, 1809.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100111 11010101 111111101 11011101 01111111 01010101 01111101 01111101 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 297 |
Words | 56 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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