Analysis of Recent Appearance Of A Lady
George Moses Horton 1779 (North Carolina) – 1883
The joy of meeting one so fair,
Inspires the present stream of song;
A bonny belle,
That few excel,
And one with whom I few compare,
Though out of sight so long.
It is a cause of much delight,
When lads and lasses meet again;
But, bonny belle,
No long to dwell,
For soon, upon the wing of flight,
We haste away in pain.
That long hid form I smile to trace,
A star emerging out of gloom,
Exalted belle,
Whose powers impel,
And draw the heart by every grace,
The queen of every bloom.
Long out of sight, but still in mind,
Eternal me'mry holds its grasp,
Still, bonny belle,
'Tis sweet to tell
Of thee, when I am left behind
In sorrow's lonely clasp.
Scheme | ABCCAB DXCCDX EFCCEF GHCCGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110111 01010111 0101 1101 01111101 111111 11011101 1101101 1101 1111 11010111 110101 11111111 01010111 0101 11001 010111001 0111001 11111101 0101111 1101 1111 11111101 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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