Analysis of So We'll Go No More a-Roving
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
So we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart still be as loving,
And the moon still be as bright.
For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul outwears the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.
Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC ADAD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111010 110101 10111110 0011111 101111 001101 0011111 010111 10111110 0010111 11111010 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 405 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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