Analysis of Shadows of His Lady
Jacques Tahureau 1527 (Le Mans) – 1555 (1555)
Within the sand of what far river lies
The gold that gleams in tresses of my Love?
What highest circle of the Heavens above
Is jewelled with such stars as are her eyes?
And where is the rich sea whose coral vies
With her red lips, that cannot kiss enough?
What dawn-lit garden knew the rose, whereof
The fled soul lives in her cheeks’ rosy guise?
What Parian marble that is loveliest,
Can match the whiteness of her brow and breast?
When drew she breath from the Sabaean glade?
Oh happy rock and river, sky and sea,
Gardens, and glades Sabaean, all that be
The far-off splendid semblance of my maid!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111101 0111010111 11010101001 111111101 0110111101 1011110101 111101011 0111001101 1110111 1101010101 11111011 1101010101 10011111 0111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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