Analysis of Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf shall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of ' the year;
And the wild cypress wave in tender gloom:
And oft by yon blue gushing stream
Shall Sorrow lean her drooping head,
And feed deep thought with many a dream,
And lingering pause and lightly tread;
Fond wretch! as if her step disturbed the dead!
Away I we know that tears are vain,
That death nor heeds nor hears distress:
Will this unteach us to complain?
Or make one mourner weep the less?
And thou - who tell'st me to forget,
Thy looks are wan, thine eyes are wet.
Scheme | AABBA CDCDD EFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011 111111001 11111101 110100101 0011010101 01111101 11010101 011111001 010010101 1111010101 011111111 11111101 1111101 11110101 011111101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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