Analysis of The Stream’s Song
Lascelles Abercrombie 1881 (Ashton upon Mersey) – 1938 (London)
Make way, make way,
You thwarting stones;
Room for my play,
Serious ones.
Do you not fear,
O rocks and boulders,
To feel my laughter
On your broad shoulders?
So you not know
My joy at length
Will all wear out
Your solemn strength?
You will not for ever
Cumber my play:
With joy and son
I clear my way.
Your faith of rock
Shall yield to me,
And be carried away
By the song of my glee.
Crumble, crumble,
Voiceless things;
No faith can last
That never sings.
For the last hour
To joy belongs:
The steadfast perish,
But not the songs.
Yet for a while
Thwart me, O boulders;
I need for laugher
Your serious shoulders.
And when my singing
Has razed your quite,
I shall have lost
Half my delight.
Scheme | AXAX XBCB XDXD CAXA XEAE XFXF CGXG XBCB XHXH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (89%) |
Metre | 1111 1101 1111 1001 1111 11010 11110 11110 1111 1111 1111 1101 111110 1011 1101 1111 1111 1111 011001 101111 1010 101 1111 1101 10110 1101 0110 1101 1101 11110 11110 110010 01110 1111 1111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 662 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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