Analysis of Stanzas To A Lady, With The Poems Of Camoëns
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
This votive pledge of fond esteem,
Perhaps, dear girl! for me thou'lt prize;
It sings of Love's enchanting dream,
A theme we never can despise.
Who blames it but the envious fool,
The old and disappointed maid;
Or pupil of the prudish school,
In single sorrow doom'd to fade?
Then read, dear girl! with feeling read,
For thou wilt ne'er be one of those;
To thee in vain I shall not plead
In pity for the poet's woes.
He was in sooth a genuine bard;
His was no faint, fictitious flame.
Like his, may love be thy reward,
But not thy hapless fate the same.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE XFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111101 01111111 11110101 01110101 111101001 0100101 11010101 01010111 11111101 11111111 11011111 01010101 110101001 11110101 11111101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 553 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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