Analysis of In the Depths of a Forest
Henry Kendall 1839 (Australia) – 1882 (Sydney)
In the depths of a Forest secluded and wild,
The night voices whisper in passionate numbers;
And I’m leaning again, as I did when a child,
O’er the grave where my father so quietly slumbers.
The years have rolled by with a thundering sound
But I knew, O ye woodlands, affection would know it,
And the spot which I stand on is sanctified ground
By the love that I bear to him sleeping below it.
Oh! well may the winds with a saddening moan
Go fitfully over the branches so dreary;
And well may I kneel by the time-shattered stone,
And rejoice that a rest has been found for the weary.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 001101001001 011010010010 011001111101 101111011001 01111101001 111111010111 0011111111 1011111110011 11101101001 110010010110 01111101101 0011011111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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