Analysis of Memory
Louisa Stuart Costello 1799 – 1870
The high grass waves, with varied hues
Of wild flowers glowing 'mid the green;
The woods have caught a deeper shade,
And darkly skirt the distant scene.
The white-throat sings from every brake
The blackbird breathes a sweet reply;
The lark's shrill fairy notes awake
The echoes of his native sky:
The pale wild rose is blushing near;
And clinging tendrils round it twine,
That throw their gay and graceful wreaths
In many a varied waving line.
There tremble on the slender stem
The barley's rich and bending heads;
And here the pea, in winged bloom,
Along the air its fragrance sheds.
I cannot smile, though all the scene
Is gay in Nature's brightest guise;
I think on hours that once have been,
And clouds o'er all the landscape rise.
And can no charm that nature knows
The fatal power of grief destroy?
Ah, no! in vain each beauty glows
When mem'ry has no gleam of joy!
Scheme | XAXA BCBC XDXD XEXE AFXF GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01111101 111010101 01110101 01010101 011111001 01010101 01110101 01011101 01111101 0101111 11110101 010010101 11010101 0110101 0101011 01011101 11011101 11010101 111101111 01101011 01111101 010101101 11011101 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 911 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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