Analysis of Remember Him, Whom Passion's Power
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Remember him, whom Passion's power
Severely---deeply---vainly proved:
Remember thou that dangerous hour,
When neither fell, though both were loved.
That yielding breast, that melting eye,
Too much invited to be blessed:
That gentle prayer, that pleading sigh,
The wilder wish reproved, repressed.
Oh! let me feel that all I lost
But saved thee all that Conscience fears;
And blush for every pang it cost
To spare the vain remorse of years.
Yet think of this when many a tongue,
Whose busy accents whisper blame,
Would do the heart that loved thee wrong,
And brand a nearly blighted name.
Think that, whate'er to others, thou
Hast seen each selfish thought subdued:
I bless thy purer soul even now,
Even now, in midnight solitude.
Oh, God! that we had met in time,
Our hearts as fond, thy hand more free;
When thou hadst loved without a crime,
And I been less unworthy thee!
Far may thy days, as heretofore,
From this our gaudy world be past!
And that too bitter moment o'er,
Oh! may such trial be thy last.
This heart, alas! perverted long,
Itself destroyed might there destroy;
To meet thee in the glittering throng,
Would wake Presumption's hope of joy.
Then to the things whose bliss or woe,
Like mine, is wild and worthless all,
That world resign---such scenes forego,
Where those who feel must surely fall.
Thy youth, thy charms, thy tenderness---
Thy soul from long seclusion pure;
From what even here hath passed, may guess
What there thy bosom must endure.
Oh! pardon that imploring tear,
Since not by Virtue shed in vain,
My frenzy drew from eyes so dear;
For me they shall not weep again.
Though long and mournful must it be,
The thought that we no more may meet;
Yet I deserve the stern decree,
And almost deem the sentence sweet.
Still---had I loved thee less---my heart
Had then less sacrificed to thine;
It felt not half so much to part
As if its guilt had made thee mine.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC XDXD XEFE GHGH IJIJ XKAK FLFL MNMN XOXO XXXX JPJP QRQR |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (85%) |
Metre | 01011110 01010101 0101110010 11011101 11011101 11010111 11011101 0101101 11111111 11111101 011100111 11010111 111111001 11010101 11011111 01010101 11101101 11110101 111101101 1010110 11111101 101111111 11110101 01110101 1111101 111010111 011101010 11110111 11010101 01011101 111001001 111111 11011111 11110101 11011101 11111101 11111100 11110101 111011111 11110101 11010101 11110101 11011111 11111101 11010111 01111111 11010101 0110101 11111111 1111011 11111111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,921 |
Words | 336 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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