Analysis of Song. Where dost thou bide

Amelia Opie 1769 (Norwich, England) – 1853 (Norwich, England)



WHERE dost thou bide, blessed soul of my love!
Is ether thy dwelling, O whisper me where!
Rapt in remembrance, while lonely I rove,
I gaze on bright clouds, and I fancy thee there.

Or to thy bower when musing I go,
I think, 't is thy voice that I hear in the breeze;
Softly it seems to speak peace to my woe,
And life once again for a moment can please.

If this be phrensy alone, 't is so dear,
That long may the pleasing delusion be nigh;
Still Ellen's voice in the breeze may I hear,
Still see in bright clouds the kind beams of her eye!


Scheme XAXA BCBC XDXD
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 111111111 11011011011 1001011011 11111011011 1111011011 111111111001 1011111111 01101101011 1111011111 11101001011 1101001111 11011011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 536
Words 111
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 137
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Amelia Opie

Amelia Opie, née Alderson, was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic Period of the early 19th century, through to 1828. Opie was also a leading abolitionist in Norwich, England. Amelia Opie's was the first of 187,000 names presented to the British Parliament on a petition from women to stop slavery. more…

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