Analysis of The Ravaged Villa
Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
In shards the sylvan vases lie,
Their links of dance undone,
And brambles wither by thy brim,
Choked fountain of the sun!
The spider in the laurel spins,
The weed exiles the flower:
And, flung to kiln, Apollo's bust
Makes lime for Mammon's tower.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010101 111101 01010111 110101 01000101 011010 01110101 111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 247 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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