Analysis of On Life's Long Round
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
On life's long round by chance I found
A dell impearled with dew;
Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground,
Lent to the earth heaven's native hue
Of holy blue.
I sought that plot of azure light
Once more in gloomy hours;
But snow had fallen overnight
And wrapped in mortuary white
My fairy ring of flowers.
| Scheme | ABABB CDCCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 11111111 01111 110010101 110110101 1101 11111101 1101010 11110101 0101001 1101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 314 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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