Analysis of All In The Golden Afternoon
Lewis Carroll 1832 (Daresbury) – 1898 (Guildford)
All in the golden afternoon
Full leisurely we glide;
For both our oars, with little skill,
By little arms are plied,
While little hands make vain pretense
Our wanderings to guide.
Ah, cruel Three! In such an hour,
Beneath such dreamy weather,
To beg a tale of breath too weak
To stir the tiniest feather!
Yet what can one poor voice avail
Against three tongues together?
Imperious Prima flashes forth
Her edict to "begin it"--
In gentler tones Secunda hopes
"There will be nonsense in it"--
While Tertia interrupts the tale
Not more than once a minute.
Anon, to sudden silence won,
In fancy they pursue
The dream-child moving through a land
Of wonders wild and new,
In friendly chat with bird or beast--
And half believe it true.
And ever, as the story drained
The wells of fancy dry,
And faintly strove that weary one
To put the subject by,
"The rest next time"--"It is next time!"
The happy voices cry.
Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:
Thus slowly, one by one,
Its quaint events were hammered out--
And now the tale is done,
And home we steer, a merry crew,
Beneath the setting sun.
Alice! a childish story take,
And with a gentle hand
Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
In Memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
Plucked in a far-off land.
Submitted by foolish Paeter
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001001 110011 111011101 110111 11011101 1010011 110101110 0111010 11011111 11010010 11111101 0111010 010010101 0101011 01010101 1111001 1100101 1111010 1110101 010101 01110101 110101 01011111 010111 01010101 011101 01011101 110011 01111111 010101 1101110 110111 11010101 010111 01110101 010101 10010101 010101 1111111 01101 110101110 100111 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,269 |
Words | 235 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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