Analysis of Sylph's Song
Louisa Stuart Costello 1799 – 1870
Fly with me, my mortal love!
Oh! haste to realms of purer day,
Where we form the morning dew,
And the rainbow's varied hue,
And give the sun each golden ray!
Oh! stay no more
On this earthly shore,
Where Joy is sick of the senseless crew;
But taste the bliss we prove,
In the starry plains above,
Queens of the meads of ether blue.
When the moon is riding high,
And trembles in the lake below,—
Then we hover in its ray,
And amid the sparkles play,
While rippling waves of silver flow.
As pure and bright
As that gleaming light:
We watch the eddying circle's bound,
And within those lucid rings
We dip our shining wings,
And scatter showers of radiance round.
When softly falls the summer shower,
Fresh'ning all the earth with green,
From the cup of many a flower,
While the purple shadows lower,
We drink the crystal tears unseen.
Then come away!
No more delay,—
Our joys and our revels haste to share.
Behold, where near thee wait,
As subjects of our state,
The shadowy spirits of the air!
Scheme | ABCCBDDCXAC XEBBEFFGHHG IJIIJBBKLLK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 11111101 1110101 001101 01011101 1111 11101 111110101 110111 0010101 11011101 1011101 0100101 1110011 0010101 110011101 1101 11101 1101101 0011101 1110101 0101011001 110101010 1110111 101110010 1010110 11010101 1101 1101 10101010111 011111 1101101 010010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,160 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 11, 11 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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