Analysis of Were My Bosom As False as Thou Deem'st It To Be
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Were my bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be,
I need not have wander'd from far Galilee;
It was but abjuring my creed to efface
The curse which, thou say'st, is the crime of my race.
If the bad never triumph, then God is with thee!
If the slave only sin, thou art spotless and free!
If the Exile on earth is an Outcast on high,
Live on in thy faith, but in mine I will die.
I have lost for that faith more than thou canst bestow,
As the God who permits thee to prosper doth know;
In his hand is my heart and my hope - and in thine
The land and the life which for him I resign.
Scheme | AABB AACC DDEE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0110111111111 1111101110 111111101 011111101111 101101011111 101101111001 1011111111 11011101111 111111111101 101101111011 011111011001 01001111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 587 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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