Analysis of Written in a Lady's Album
Joseph Rodman Drake 1795 (New York City) – 1820 (New York City)
Grant me, I cried, some spell of art,
To turn with all a lover's care,
That spotless page, my Eva's heart,
And write my burning wishes there.
But Love, by faithless Laia taught
How frail is woman's holiest vow,
Look'd down, while grace attempered thought
Sate serious on his baby brow.
"Go! blot her album," cried the sage,
"There none but bards a place may claim;
But woman's heart's a worthless page,
Where every fool may write his name."
Until by time or fate decayed,
That line and leaf shall never part;
Ah! who can tell how soon shall fade
The lines of love from woman's heart.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GAGA |
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Poetic Form | Pantoum Quatrain |
Metre | 11111111 11110101 11011101 01110101 111111 111101001 111111 110011101 11010101 11110111 11010101 110011111 01111101 11011101 11111111 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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