Analysis of Merlin's Isle
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)
O, I went down to Merlin's Isle,
And when that I had found it,
I kneeled me down a little while
And praised the peace that bound it.
There were no seas around it,
But the full tide of turf in flood
To the rim of the berried hawthorn wood,
And a dew-pond where the dear stars stood
Too deep for me to sound it.
O, I went down to Merlin's Isle
And there I soon did learn-a,
The winds they did implore me,
How sweet two beech-brown eyes may smile
Among the maiden fern-a.
My poor heart took a turn-a.
In a warm wind the whitebeam foam
Ran quick along the silvering loam,
And I was young and far from home,
As you may well discern-a
O, I went home from Merlin's Isle,
My dear was there before me.
In the moonshine by the shepherd's stile
A kind of grief came o'er me.
The winds they did implore me,
'And come,' they said, but I said 'Nay,
For the honey star hath closed the day,
And love that borrowed my soul away,
Sweet love shall now restore me.'
Scheme | Ababbxccb AdEaddfffd aeaeEggge |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 0111111 11110101 0101111 1011011 10111101 10110111 001110111 1111111 1111111 0111110 0111011 11111111 0101010 1111010 0011011 1101011 01110111 1111010 1111111 1111011 00110101 01111101 0111011 01111111 101011101 01111101 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 926 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 10, 9 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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