Analysis of Cagnes
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
ON THE RIVIERA.
In tortuous windings up the steep incline
The sombre street toils to the village square,
Whose antique walls in stone and moulding bear
Dumb witness to the Moor. Afar off shine,
With tier on tier, cutting heaven's blue divine,
The snowy Alps; and lower the hills are fair,
With wave-green olives rippling down to where
Gold clusters hang and leaves of sunburnt vine.
You may perchance, I never shall forget
When, between twofold glory of land and sea,
We leant together o'er the old parapet,
And saw the sun go down. For, oh, to me,
The beauty of that beautiful strange place
Was its reflection beaming from your face.
Scheme | X ABBAABBA CDCDEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10010 0100110101 011110101 1011010101 1101010111 11111010101 01010100111 11110100111 110101111 1101110101 10111101101 110010100110 0101111111 0101110011 1101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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