Analysis of Ylladmar
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
Her hair was, oh, so dense a blur
Of darkness, midnight envied her;
And stars grew dimmer in the skies
To see the glory of her eyes;
And all the summer rain of light
That showered from the moon at night
Fell o'er her features as the gloom
Of twilight o'er a lily-bloom.
The crimson fruitage of her lips
Was ripe and lush with sweeter wine
Than burgundy or muscadine
Or vintage that the burgher sips
In some old garden on the Rhine:
And I to taste of it could well
Believe my heart a crucible
Of molten love--and I could feel
The drunken soul within me reel
And rock and stagger till it fell.
And do you wonder that I bowed
Before her splendor as a cloud
Of storm the golden-sandaled sun
Had set his conquering foot upon?
And did she will it, I could lie
In writhing rapture down and die
A death so full of precious pain
I'd waken up to die again.
Scheme | AABBCCDD EFFEFGXHHG IIXXJJXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101 1101100 01110001 11010101 01010111 11010111 110010101 11100101 0101101 11011101 110011 11010101 01110101 01111111 01110100 11010111 01010111 01010111 01110111 01010101 1101011 111100101 01111111 01010101 01111101 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 829 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 10, 8 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 221 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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